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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

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Be Yourself Experience Oneself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
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

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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