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If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective

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