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. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir

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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 obligation. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - Simone de Beauvoir

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. - Simone de Beauvoir

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

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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. - Simone de Beauvoir

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