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Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

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