That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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