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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

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself

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