“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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French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of [Jean-Paul Sartre][1] and vice versa. Beauvoir's two volume treatise [Le deuxième sexe][2] (1949, The Second Sex) is among the most widely read feminist works. ([Source][3].) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/a/OL896456A/Jean-Paul_Sartre [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL767937W/Le_deuxie%CC%80me_sexe [3]: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm
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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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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy my...”
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“It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.”
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“In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.”
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“The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.”
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“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
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“You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.”
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“One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.”
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“If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.”
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“If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
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“One is not born a woman - one becomes one.”
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“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligatio...”
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“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
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“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
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“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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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, t...”