“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 myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.”

—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

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”

—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

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“Que nada nos defina. Que nada nos sujeite. Que a liberdade seja a nossa própria substância.”

—Simone de Beauvoir 

“I’m so eager to see you again, but I wouldn't ask to see you. Not because I’m proud. In fact, in front of you, I cede all my pride. Yet only if you asked to see me, our meeting would be meaningful to me.”

—Simone de Beauvoir, Lettres à Nelson Algren

“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

“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
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