I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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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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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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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 body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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