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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
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
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’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion

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