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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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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Acceptance Man

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

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