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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
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