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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See

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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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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