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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch

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