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I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.
I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.
Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.