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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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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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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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