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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

Simone de Beauvoir

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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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Father Invention
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

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