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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

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
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
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
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings

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

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