The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
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About Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a 20th-century French philosopher, social theorist and activist. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave