It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThat’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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