There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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