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“What is an adult? A child puffed with age.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Simone de Beauvoir
Type
reference · Secondary source
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Context

The Woman Destroyed [La Femme rompue] (1967)

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Beauvoir, Simone de. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Simone de Beauvoir. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir

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