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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman

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