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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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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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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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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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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Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth.
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Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry about the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.
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The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.
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Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.
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Immortality is a terrible curse.
