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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
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
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
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
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness 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 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
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
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself

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