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

Simone de Beauvoir

I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Enjoyment Myself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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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Human Man Woman
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Discipline Man Woman
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Magic Sex Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Knowledge Oneself Story
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Life Live
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Demand Sacrifice War
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mistake Myself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Expression Female Genius History
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Place Waste
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Experience Oneself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Empty People Thinking
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself

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

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