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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
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 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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

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