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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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