I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRFathers 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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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 is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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 would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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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 tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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