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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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

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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