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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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 enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
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
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 characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
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
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 live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman

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

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