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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

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
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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 would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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
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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Existence Freedom Spring Value
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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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