One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLiterature 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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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