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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth

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