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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self 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
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
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
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman

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