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

Simone de Beauvoir

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
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
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand

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

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