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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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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Life Literature Place Religion
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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Death Life Live
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself

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