I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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