Simone de Beauvoir

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"In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid."	Stupidity
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."	Honesty, Love, Military
"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."	Miscellaneous
"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."	Honesty, Lies, Men
"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."	Generosity, Life, Men

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