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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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