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Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want...more

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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, witho...more

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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

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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, and compassion

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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. ...more

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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of ...more

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Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed...more

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I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put ...more

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The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

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If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.

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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

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Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all ...more

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We have to respect freedom only when it is intended for freedom, not when it strays, flees itself, and resigns itself. A freedom which is interested o...more