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

Simone de Beauvoir

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 whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value

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

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