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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes: The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
         

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.


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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.



We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.



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What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.



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I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.



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