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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe 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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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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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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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