Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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Sooner or later, all games become serious.
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
