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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
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 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
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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

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