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

Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Ability Inspirational Worth
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
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin 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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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
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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Father Invention
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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

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