French - Writer | January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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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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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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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.
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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