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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Simone de Beauvoir

But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
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
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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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