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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics

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