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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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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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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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