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

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
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
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
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
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
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
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
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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

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