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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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