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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Simone de Beauvoir

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

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