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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

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
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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Existence Future Justice Present
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Greatness Himself Man Woman
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Love Perspective Understand
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 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
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
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Feeling Freedom
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
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Admire Love Necessary Self Love
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Hurt Sin Smile Tears
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Enjoyment Myself

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

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