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STAND BY YOUR MAN.(Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir's works)(Interview)

The New Yorker

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Jean-Paul Sartre preferred the company of women. As one would expect of the great advocate of transparency, he discussed his reasons frankly. "First of all, there is the physical element. There are of course ugly women, but I prefer those who are pretty," he explained in an interview for the documentary "Sartre by Himself." "Then, there is the fact that they're oppressed, so they seldom bore you with shop talk. . . . I enjoy being with a woman because I'm bored out of my mind when I have to converse in the realm of ideas." "Sartre by Himself" was filmed in 1972, when Sartre was sixty-six; his interviewers were loyal associates from the journal he founded after the war, ...

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