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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!

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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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Greatness Himself Man Woman
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention

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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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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