Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo 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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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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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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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