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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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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Father Invention
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself

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