I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
At age 21, French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir (born January 9, 1908) became the youngest person to pass the agrégation—a nationwide post-graduate exam—in philosophy. She missed coming in first by a narrow margin. That honor went to Jean-Paul Sartre.
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