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

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Fly Herself Wings
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy 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
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
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Arrogant Mad Man
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Oneself 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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Art Husband Marriage

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