What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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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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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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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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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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