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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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Death Heaven Life Yourself
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

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