I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for 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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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