I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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Je souhairtais que toute vie humaine fut une pure liberte transparente.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Blood of Others · 1945

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Sang des autres [The Blood of Others]. Gallimard, 1945, ch. 5.

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