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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRBe loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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