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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War

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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