I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRGirls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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