A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them


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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the m...
LUC DE CLAPIERS
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain it...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of lov...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiorit...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND