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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility

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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

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Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

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That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.

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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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