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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage

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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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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