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

Simone de Beauvoir

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth Myself
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 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
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
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
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
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
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Philosophy
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Mystery Philosophy
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!
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Different Himself Lie People Reflection
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Herself Woman
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Oneself Value
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
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Philosophy World
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beyond Herself Life See
I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Up Love Myself Try

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

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