To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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.
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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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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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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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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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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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