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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. Simone Weil

Soul Lie Doubt Danger Hungry Itself Any Bread Whether Persuade Should Lest

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir

Woman Born Rather Becomes

I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it. Sonia Rykiel

Sad You Woman Strong Unhappy Important Live Difficult Too Other See Days Like Most Most Important Thing Learn Always Am Important Thing Brave Any Maybe The Most Important Want Anyone Fantastic Thing

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals. Thomas Piketty

Good Capitalism Wealth Market Market Forces Ensure Ideals Concentration Democratic Forces Limit Common Common Good Themselves Compatible Sufficient Levels

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo

Happiness Life Greatest Greatest Happiness Loved Convinced

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. Victor Hugo

Hope God Man Word Every Brow Written Which Every Man

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. Voltaire

Expectation Live Living Never Always

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. Voltaire

Speak We Cannot Oblige Always Cannot

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. Voltaire

Women Worth Men Sentiment

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. Voltaire

Top Excellent Bottom Middle

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. Voltaire

Secret Everything Tell Bore Being The Secret Of

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. Abbe Pierre

You Thought Become Society Those Superfluous General Only Givers Were Question Beggars Place Asked Who Now Needed

Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate. Alain Ducasse

Music Food You Experience Rest Somewhere Feeling Design Harmony Mood Dining Atmosphere Percent Part Between Counts Well Surrounds Plate

The society based on production is only productive, not creative. Albert Camus

Creative Society Only Production Productive Based

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. Albert Camus

You Rebellion Somewhere Feeling Way Some Without Exist Cannot Justified

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. Albert Camus

Freelance Only Join Remains Take He Part Combat Armies Without Least Committed Artist Refuses Refusing Really Regular Who

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together. Albert Camus

Man Together World Absurd Links Depends Them Much Moment

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. Albert Camus

Fate Scorn Cannot

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. Albert Camus

Obligations About Morality Football Know Most Surely Owe

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. Albert Camus

Music Art Will First Wish Analysis Kind Dream Must Only Shall Feel Understand Does Truly Fertile Conducive Move Which Then Us Reason Tolerate Appreciate

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? Albert Camus

Law Innocent Victim Society Innocence Other Claim Guilty Must Only Lay Absolutely Retaliation Individuals Between Primitive Supposed Operate Sure Question Represent Short Form Note Cut Even Whom Two

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. Albert Camus

Everyone Knows Govern Means

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. Alexis Carrel

Hurt People Other Everyone Himself Greater Makes Than Effort Help

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