Simone De BeauvoirTherefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.
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The misfortune that befalls a human being when he is a child, with the result that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know its exigencies, is that within him he will always feel the need to assert himself, and this is the misfortune of all human beings.
Source: The Ethics Of Ambiguity
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