She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife 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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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 was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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