I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIt 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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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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