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    <body><![CDATA[This is for those who wonder &quot;What is the meaning of life?&quot; and are pessimists. A strange novel, this is part historical fiction and part philosophy. It dragged at places, but overall, I enjoyed it. It definitely made me think. <br/><br/>My favorite section is the first section, because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38203432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great idea to have a protagonist who is immortal: It shows how what a normal human being would think to be important, love, belief, family etc. is washed away by the experience that all and everything is either repeated (and by this repetition becomes insipid) or senseless in that the end of it is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80404433">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books, but i can never recommend it to anyone because i'm not sure if i was going through some phase and other in my life that made me love it so much... know what i mean? ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[همه می‌میرند]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[man taze shoru kardam in ketabo.........]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A typical case of being stuck at my parents without a book. Why do I never learn?<br/>Oh, that's right, because my parents have books. Some of them are even good.<br/><br/>What started as a bored &quot;okay, let's read a few pages of this&quot;, turned into an afternoon of intense reading. I was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61407331">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite my fascination with Beauvoir and propensity to give her more credit than she perhaps deserves for Existentialism and the development of Jean-Paul Sartre, I can't overlook her almost laughable shortcomings as a novelist.  None of her novels are truly novels, but are more philosophical treatis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35000109">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read any of Beauvoir's fiction in quite some time, but it is funny that this novel called up some of the same feelings I had about the earlier novels I read. It is obvious that she loved to research, because this really shines through as she takes the reader all over the world via her chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15935013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am prone to vertigo and this classic almost made me sick with it , it really affected me but I loved it from beginning to end , it is  such  a thought provoking masterpiece.I read it when I was 17 because our philosophy teacher had encouraged us to do so.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[همه می‌میرند]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[من سیمون دوبووار را با جنس دوم شناختم. خانمی با افکار خاص که سالها با ژان پل سارتر زندگی کرد بدون اینکه با هم ازدواج کنن. باید گفت که کتاباشم مثل زندگیش خاص هستند. من بع...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8267811">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a masterpiece by french philosoipher Simon dw bauver (sp?)<br/>I read this more than 20 years ago and is among very few books that i will recommend to everyone.<br/><br/>after one hundered years of solitude (Marquez), silent don and  Zamin e no AbAd (by sholokhov), Unbeable Lightness of b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/699867">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[...i've been slowly reading this over that last 5 years!  :-l]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[top 10 books]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tis about an actress desperate for an immortal man to fall for her so she can endure via his memory. A fave. Guess I empathise with exile. Loved the exposure of memory's mortality.  <br/><br/>&quot;For twenty years it seemed to me that I had been taking part in a game, and that one day, at the str...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2047085">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[About  halfway through this book...<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't normally go for existentialist philosophy, but this was a superb piece of writing. She should have gotten an award for this book, not &quot;The Mandarins.&quot; By the end of the book, even the most optimistic person will question the point of his or her own life. I like it because I see it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5794255">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have learned a very important thing: every one must set a goal for his life otherwise everything will be in vain, just like Fosca's immortality.<br/>The only thing I disliked is the deep pesimism that the main character, count Fosca, has it in all situations. I am an optimist by nature and I woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36807466">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[همه می‌میرند]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[سال ۱۳۶۲ این کتاب را خواندم. وقتی مرگ بر فراز کشورمان در پرواز بود و هر روز خبر مرگ عزیزی شنیده می‌شد. برای من که بسیار مفید بود دانستن این که «مرگ» چقدر خوب است و اگر «...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28543567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[it's like enjoying something like Highlander and learning about existentialism, Simone can turn Sartre into a narrative pleasure. Read all novels (and the memoirs) you can get hold fom her, there's a great one about the world of advertising/market research, called &quot;Les Belles Images&quot;.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[man khoondamesh<br/>amma hala digeh hich chizesh bedard nemikhoreh<br/>aszizam<br/>manam meslehj to uroopa hastam<br/>alañ<br/>spañia <br/>madridam<br/>kar mikonam<br/>moja radam<br/>va doñya yeh jooreh digeh shode<br/>0034629114632<br/>mer30<br/>khasti<br/>bezañg<br/>kia<br/>]]></body>
    
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