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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

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
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
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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Mystery Philosophy
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice

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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