When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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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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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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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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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