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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

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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World

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