p.55
• Interpretation common in image quote memes:
• Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
• What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.
• Interpretation common in image quote memes:
• Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
• What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.
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L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
• Fuller translation:
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
• Fuller translation:" in the context of "p.55
• Interpretation common in image quote memes:
• Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
• What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Jean-Paul Sartre" (Quotes, Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952): Saint Genet, comédien et martyr (Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr) (1952), Gallimard)
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About Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.
About Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.
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