Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
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When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
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There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.
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Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!
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Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.
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Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.
