To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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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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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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