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Aphorisms by Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, writer, playwright, literary critic and activist , born wednesday june 21, 1905 in Paris (France), died tuesday april 15, 1980 in Paris (France)
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For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves. I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in my hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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    In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence, as not-bound to life.
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      The superiority of hegelian dogmatism, for those who believe in it, lies precisely in that part of it which we now reject, its idealism. For Hegel, the dialectic had no need to prove itself. In the first place hegel took himself to be at the beginning of the end of history, that is to say, at that moment of truth which is death. The time had come to judge, because in future the philosopher and his judgement would never be required again.
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