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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.

  • If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

  • In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  • One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.



  • The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

  • Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

  • No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

  • Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  • I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

  • Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  • When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

  • I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

  • When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.

  • Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.

  • "Weakness" is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes

  • To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

  • Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female. Whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

  • Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.


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