I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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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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