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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

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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