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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Simone de Beauvoir

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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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’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
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try

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