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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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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Acceptance Man
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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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