Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.
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Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.
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To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
