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Simone de Beauvoir

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone de Beauvoir suggests that old age distorts and imitates life without its original vitality, while death gives life a final, meaningful purpose by ending its temporal limits. Unlike aging, which extends life in a diminished form, death removes the flow of time and gives life a definitive, absolute significance.

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