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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Simone de Beauvoir

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

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