The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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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.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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