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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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 so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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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Care Life Price Profit Young
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself

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