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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Simone de Beauvoir

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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Easy People
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The 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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Love Perspective Understand
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

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