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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Break Magic Sex Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman

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