"Let women be provided with living strength of their own."
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"I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint."
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"Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other."
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"To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being."
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"Art is an attempt to integrate evil."
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"Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy."
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"I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."
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"Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature."
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"It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself."
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"If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion"
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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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"Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat."
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"La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette."
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"The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present."
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"Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it."
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"Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive."
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"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift."
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"Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing."
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"The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted."
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"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."
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