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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Simone de Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
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
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
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
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present

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