If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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