Buying is a profound pleasure. Simone de Beauvoir

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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. - Simone de Beauvoir

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

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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. - Simone de Beauvoir

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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. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir

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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. ― Stephen Colbert

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