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| var transcript = `for jean-paul sartre freedom was | |
| **00:08** | |
| everything the lover wants to be loved | |
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| but not by someone who has taken a love | |
| **00:12** | |
| potion he wants to be loved by someone | |
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| who has freely chosen to love him the | |
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| kind of possession we seek in loving | |
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| someone else is completely different | |
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| from the possession of a thing because a | |
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| thing can't possess us back but for | |
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| Sartre the reality of romantic love | |
| **00:29** | |
| isn't blissful mutual respect and a | |
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| merging of freedoms, far from it | |
| **00:34** | |
| love is conflict the loved person wants`; | |
| stripAnnotations(transcript); |
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