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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

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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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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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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

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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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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 9th, 1908

Died: April 14th, 1986

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