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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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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... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
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You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
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