Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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