I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThere’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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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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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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