To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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