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were never subjected to correction by direct expenence or obser–
vation.
Still, when all this is said, it cannot be denied that she was a
very attractive and striking person, and when she was not displaying
her abilities as an ideologue, she had a lively intelligence, one that
within the limits of her beliefs and assumptions was able to handle
ideas with the facility we are accustomed to in French intellectuals.
When Simone de Beauvoir came here after the war, there was much
talk and argument, during which her two sides - her ideological stub–
bornness and her intellectual and personal charm - stood out.
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