History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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