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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

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