I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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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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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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