All success cloaks a surrender.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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