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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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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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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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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Love Perspective Understand
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
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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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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.
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Creation Easy Thinking World

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