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

Simone de Beauvoir

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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