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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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