Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
Edward Young
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau
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Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.
Ludovico Ariosto
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Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.
Antonio Porchia
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McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
Peter Bergen
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No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Albert Claude
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Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Many people effectively stop carrying out what it's called 'life's a movie.' The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.
Winifred Holtby
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
Benjamin Wittes
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir
