One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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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’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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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