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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Simone de Beauvoir

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Self Love
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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Myself Poet Taste Writing
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Character Yourself
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
Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Care Life Price Profit Young
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beyond Herself Life See
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention
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
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Act Change Future Life Yourself
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Confidence Lose Oneself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Oppression Protection
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Love Philosophy
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself

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