I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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