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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes: 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.
         

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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All oppression creates a state of war.



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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.



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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.



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