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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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