Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan 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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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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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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