One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through 'the eternal feminine,' and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question what is a woman.
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Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
Simone de Beauvoir
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.
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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
Simone de Beauvoir
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