"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.
~ Simone de Beauvoir ~












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