I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREvery war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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