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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
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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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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