A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRA day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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