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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

Simone de Beauvoir

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself

A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.

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