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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
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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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex

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