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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

Simone de Beauvoir

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself

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