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The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
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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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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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. He justifies his existence by a movement which, like freedom, springs from his heart but which leads outside of himself.
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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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