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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

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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Human Man Woman
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
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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Creation Lost Love Youth

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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