One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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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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