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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
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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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy

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