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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

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