All success cloaks a surrender.
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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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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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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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