Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
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Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.
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You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.
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Immortality is a terrible curse.
