History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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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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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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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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