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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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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Creation Lost Love Youth
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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