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

Simone de Beauvoir

Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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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Creation Lost Love Youth
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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

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