One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to 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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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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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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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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