One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.
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