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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
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
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
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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

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