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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
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
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
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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

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