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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

Simone de Beauvoir

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective

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