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All success cloaks a surrender.

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
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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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Care Life Price Profit Young
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment

All success cloaks a surrender.

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