I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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 be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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