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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
Man 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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Human Man Woman
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
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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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Existence Feeling Freedom
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

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