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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself

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