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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

All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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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Love Perspective Understand
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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