"What an odd thing a diary is: the……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in."
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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship,…
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and…
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing…
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm…
— Luke Bryan
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I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from…
— James Buchan
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your…
— Barbara Bush
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
— Jackie Chan
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning…
— Laozi
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I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you…
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