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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Simone de Beauvoir

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself

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