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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

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong

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