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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Creation Lost Love Youth
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective

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