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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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