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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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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
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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Father Invention
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing

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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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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