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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself

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