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#1

“...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism

105 likes

#2

“Я не была феминисткой - в том смысле, что не интересовалась политикой: мне было наплевать на право голоса. Но в моем понимании мужчины и женщины - в одинаковой степени личности; я предъявляла им одинаковые требования и хотела для них одинаковых прав.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

tags: men-and-women, rights

2 likes

#3

“Quand on aime la vie, on ne lit pas.”
― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

10 likes

#4

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

4102 likes

#5

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6658 likes

#6

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

1664 likes

#7

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

1286 likes

#8

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11148 likes

#9

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

tags: books, literature, reading

1195 likes

#10

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

4210 likes

#11

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3084 likes

#12

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9112 likes

#13

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10692 likes

#14

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7318 likes

#15

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7085 likes

#16

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

2815 likes

#17

“Tout est kitsch, si l'on veut. La musique dans son ensemble est kitsch; l'art est kitsch; la littérature elle-même est kitsch. Toute émotion est kitsch, pratiquement par définition; mais toute réflexion aussi, et même dans un sens toute action. La seule chose qui ne soit absolument pas kitsch, c'est le néant.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

tags: kitsch, néant

12 likes

#18

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, rebel

883 likes

#19

“Liberty is the right not to lie.”
― Albert Camus

58 likes

#20

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

1918 likes

#21

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2788 likes

#22

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: inspirational, writing

106 likes

#23

“Dieu est le seul être qui, pour règner, n'a même pas besoin d'exister.”
― Charles Baudelaire

34 likes

#24

“L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique : savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur, et accélérer quand même.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans

tags: love

48 likes

#25

“L'amour est un combat perdu d'avance.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans

tags: love

41 likes

#26

“Tout s’achète : l’amour, l’art, la planète Terre, vous, moi.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs

tags: art

19 likes

#27

“On est amoureux, le jour où l'on met du dentifrice sur une autre brosse que la sienne”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans

5 likes

#28

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

2309 likes

#29

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1196 likes

#30

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

1371 likes

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