L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.

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Interpretation common in image quote memes | Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. | Fuller translation | What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.

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