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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours... I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

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All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value which applies only to the imaginary and which entails the negation of the world in its essential structure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Born: June 21, 1905

Died: April 15, 1980 (aged 74)

Bio: Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

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