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"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
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"Sacrifice and "self both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that."
"A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both."
"I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference."
"Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently."
"So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore."
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"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
"I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive."
"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."
"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
"To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God's absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, & his victories as well."
"Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down."
"Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was the heroine; she was still almost a child, but we, too, were growing up."
"If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck."
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