A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou 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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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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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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