To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYouth 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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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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 am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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