It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife 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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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