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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

Simone de Beauvoir

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
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

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