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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Simone de Beauvoir

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
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
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

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