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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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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Existence Freedom Spring Value
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man

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