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  1. It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself... It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for …
  2. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
  3. Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. Psychiatrists h…
  4. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
  5. It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so. I simply asked that women should exper…
  6. When Sartre and I met not only did our backgrounds fuse, but also our solidity, our individual conviction that we were what we were made to…
  7. The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
  8. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human b…

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