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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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