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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Simone de Beauvoir

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Care Life Price Profit Young
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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