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

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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy

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

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