It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYouth 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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to 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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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