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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Simone de Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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 I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

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