One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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