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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
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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Body Philosophy World
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
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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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy

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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