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

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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