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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

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