Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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There’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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Life 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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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