Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Simone de Beauvoir

• Death
• Memories
• Old Age

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• Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

  

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• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

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• Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

  

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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

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• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

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• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  

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• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

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• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

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• When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

  

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• Please leave the window open.

  

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• Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Death
  • Memories
  • Old Age