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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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

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