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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
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
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself

That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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