Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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