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| Simone de Beauvoir
All oppression creates a state of war. Buying is a profound pleasure. 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. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. 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. In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. 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. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. One is not born a woman, but becomes one. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. 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. That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. What is an adult? A child blown up by age. When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. |
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