She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBut it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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