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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

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