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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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