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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.”
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“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
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“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying”
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“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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“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
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“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”
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“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”
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“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”
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“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion”
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“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom”
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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”
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