Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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