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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment

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