Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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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.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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