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- Explanation
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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.
- Man
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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.
- Life
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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.
- May
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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.
- Humanity
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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.
- Born
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
- Husband
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
- Man
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
- Born
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One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
- Life
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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.
- Different
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
- Contrasted
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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.
- He
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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
- Pleasure
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Buying is a profound pleasure.
- Oppression
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All oppression creates a state of war.
- May
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
- Age
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
- Me
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
- Feeling
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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.
- Attempt
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
- Impossible
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