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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
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
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value

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