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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
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
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

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