I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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