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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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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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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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