Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBecause we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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