I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRPeople seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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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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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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