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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

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love 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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
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
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
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
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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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World

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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