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Jean-Paul Sartre on Independence Day

1905–1980 France

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I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946)

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

The Flies (1943)

It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.
Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.

The Flies (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.