When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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