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“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
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“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“My dear Usbek, when women feel, as they lose their attractiveness, that their end is coming in advance, they would like to go backwards to youth again. How could they possibly not attempt to deceive other people? - they make every effort to deceive themselves, and to escape from the most distressing thought we can have.”
― Persian Letters
― Persian Letters
“Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.”
― Persian Letters
― Persian Letters
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