I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSelf-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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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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