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#1

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: feminism

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#2

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: women

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#3

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source

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#4

“Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that brown-and-yellow dress I bought in Boise, and Miriam Ball told me nobody wore those kind of dresses in New York, and I cried all night?" Eloise shook Mary Jane's arm. "I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

tags: uncle-wiggily-in-connecticut

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#5

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

tags: salinger, stories

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#6

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

tags: gay, relatable

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#7

“How shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?”
― William Shakespeare

tags: antony-and-cleopatra

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#8

“Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.”
― Ancient Chinese Proverb

tags: ancient, ancient-china, ancient-chinese, body, chinese, civilize, fighting, inspirational, mind, philosophical, philosophy, proverb, savage, training, warrior

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#9

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#10

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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#11

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#12

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

tags: time

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#13

“Do all lovers feel like they're inventing something?”
― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

tags: love, yearning

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#14

“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”
― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

tags: eurydice, love, muse, mythology, orpheus, orpheus-and-eurydice, poet, portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire

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#15

“In the solitude, I felt the liberty you speak of. But I also felt your absence.”
― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

tags: feminism, freedom, heloise, love, marianne, portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire

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#16

“If you look at me, who do I look at?”
― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

tags: heloise, love, portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire

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#17

“You didn’t invent my sadness.”
― Céline Sciamma

tags: maman, petite

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#18

“I wanted “peace”, to be left alone in my underground world. "Real life" oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

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#19

“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: disease, thinking

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#20

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: love

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#21

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

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#22

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women

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#23

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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#24

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn

tags: feminism, humour, misattributed-gloria-steinem

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#25

“What may not be expected in a country of eternal light”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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#26

“The ‘I’ [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this ‘I’ uses a language that is alien to her; this ‘I’ [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this ‘I’ [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.”
― Monique Wittig, The Lesbian Body

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#27

“For I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind. And it is just this faith of mine that they laugh at.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

tags: beautiful, evil, faith, happy, mankind, ridiculous, truth

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#28

“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.”
― Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy

tags: capitalism, consumption, poverty, work

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#29

“Healthy in body and mind, I end my life before pitiless old age which has taken from me my pleasures and joys one after another; and which has been stripping me of my physical and mental powers, can paralyse my energy and break my will, making me a burden to myself and to others”
― Paul Lafargue

tags: suicide, suicide-note

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#30

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: education, education-system, instituions

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