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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
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
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
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
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
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
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
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
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong

He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

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