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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Independent Intelligence Love Myself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Magic Sex Woman
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blessing Greatness Love Myself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Myself Scare
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

History Let Go Myself
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Generosity Myself True
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Herself Love Space 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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Discipline Man Woman
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Arrogant Mad Man
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Demand Sacrifice War
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beyond Herself Life See

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