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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
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

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