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.
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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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