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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.

Simone de Beauvoir

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave

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