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Art is an attempt to integrate evil. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Integrate
Attempt
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Buying is a profound pleasure. Simone de Beauvoir
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Profound
Pleasure
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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. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Superiority
Inferiority
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Perpetuating
Surpassing
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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. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Sense
Divide
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Offered
Always
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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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Obligation
Homosexuality
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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, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Attributes
Friendship
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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Turns
Enough
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Stubbornness
Impossible
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Certainties
Rewarded
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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. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Dimension
Absolute
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One is not born a woman, but becomes one. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Becomes
Woman
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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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Whenever
Being
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Transparent
Human
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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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Inferior
Situation
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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. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Sense
Something
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Aggressive
Arrogant
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir
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Profitable
Individual
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir
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Life
Future
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