Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSex 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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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