It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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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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