STREET COUCH IS YOU

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Anyhow, isn’t it better to think we’ve got here by mistake? -Sartre

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Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. But if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors. -Sartre

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Cuando la tiranía es ley, revolución es orden. -Don Pedro Albizu Campos

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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Simon De Beavoir

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. -Simone de Beauvoir

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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return. -Simone de Beauvoir

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You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

― Samuel Beckett

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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. -Camus

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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts? -Sartre

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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering. -Camus

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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak. -Camus

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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. -Sartre

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Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. -Nietzsche

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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing. -Camus

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. -Camus

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. -Kafka

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We must act out of passion before we can feel it. —sartre