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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

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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True

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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