Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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