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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

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War

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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