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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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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Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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