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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

Simone de Beauvoir

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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
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
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

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