One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. - Simone de Beauvoir

The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves.What, for instance, was the point of living under the same roof when the whole world was our common property?Why fear to set great distances between us when we could never truly be parted?One single aim fired us, the urge to embrace all experience, and to bear witness concerning it ...That which bound us freed us and in this freedom we found ourselves bound as closely as possible

To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.