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

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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

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Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion.

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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

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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.

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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

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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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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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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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