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" All oppression creates a state of war. "
War
State
Oppression
" All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. "
Why
Power
Man
" Art is an attempt to integrate evil. "
Evil
Integrate
Attempt
" Buying is a profound pleasure. "
Pleasure
Profound
Buying
" Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. "
Today
Now
Life
" 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. "
Guilt
Truth Is
Reward
" I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. "
Incapable
I Am
Am
" If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. "
You
Enough
Defeat
" 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. "
Woman
Loving
Human
" In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. "
Impossible
Stupid
Overcome
" 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. "
Humanity
Giving
Animal
" 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. "
Old Age
Time
Age
" I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. "
Love
Myself
Safe
" I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. "
Freedom
Human
I Wish
" Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. "
Dying
Living
Itself
" Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. "
Man
Said
Woman
" No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. "
Man
Aggressive
Women
" One is not born a woman, but becomes one. "
Woman
Born
Becomes
" One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. "
Rather
Woman
Born
" One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. "
Compassion
Love
Long
" Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. "
Work
Men
Own
" Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. "
Holiday
May
Rejection
" 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. "
Sex
Broken
Woman
" Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. "
She
Woman
Society
" Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. "
Society
Far
Cares
" The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. "
Mediocre
Feels
Himself
" The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. "
Same
Love
Divide
" The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. "
Originality
Writer
Always
" This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. "
Always
Been
Explanation
" To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. "
Job
Relationship
Art
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