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Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
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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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
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Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
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She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
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The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
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The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.
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