I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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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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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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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 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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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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