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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Life Literature Place Religion
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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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Man Truth View World
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears

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