The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRChange 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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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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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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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