A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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