Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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 I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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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.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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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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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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