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— Simone de Beauvoir"Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it."
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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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If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
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