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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
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
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
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
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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Creation Easy Thinking World

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