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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
• One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and…
• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
• To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
• Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she…
• No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
• The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings…
• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man;…
• Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
• In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
• All oppression creates a state of war.

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