No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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