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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Love Perspective Understand
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
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
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy

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