She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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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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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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