All oppression creates a state of war.
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Buying is a profound pleasure.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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One'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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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -from others. We do not accept it willingly.
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
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These worthy schoolteachers were not overburdened with diplomas, but as far as devotion and morality were concerned, they were second to none; they wore plum-colored silk blouses that caressed my cheeks when they pressed me to their bosoms.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
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