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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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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Man Truth View World
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner

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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