If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCounselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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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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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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