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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Break Up Love Myself Try
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
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

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

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