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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

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
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
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
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
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself

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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