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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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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Creation Lost Love Youth
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason

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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