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Does Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
- When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
- 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.
- 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…
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