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The Woman Destroyed

by Simone de Beauvoir

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“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: loneliness, people, scared, world

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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

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