It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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