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"Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."
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"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else."
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"How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?"
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"The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember."
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"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it."
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"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."
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"You don't have to be in hurry in life."
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"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."
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"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
Art
"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
Society
"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
Being
"The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases."
Philosophy
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
Woman
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."
Infinity
"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."
Life
"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
Being
"She gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man she knows all that offends his pride and humiliates his will. While inclining before him and submitting flesh to spirit, she remains on the carnal borders of the spirit; and she contests the sharpness of hard masculine architecture by softening the angles; she introduces free luxury and unforeseen grace."
Humanity
"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
Equality
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