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As Carl Jung put it, “You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
For Sartre and Beauvoir, their open relationship was more than a personal arrangement; it was a philosophical choice.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
misleads the penetration of genius itself? The people has neither the time nor the means which are essential to the prosecution of an investigation of this kind: its conclusions are hastily formed from a superficial inspection of the more prominent features of a question.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
In a reversal of Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am,’ Sartre argues, in effect, ‘I am nothing, therefore I am free.’
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

en admettant que l’on soit une personne, on a nécessairement aussi la philosophie de sa personne : mais il existe là une différence sensible. Chez l’une ce sont les défauts qui font les raisonnements philosophiques, chez l’autre les richesses et les forces.
Friedrich Nietzsche • Le Gai Savoir (French Edition)
J'ai eu hier soir une longue conversation sur l'amour, avec un de mes amis qui a plus de cinquante ans et passe pour avoir été un des Don Juan de son temps. Ce qui me frappait en l'écoutant, c'était de comprendre combien il avait eu peu de bonheur de tant d'aventures que d'autres lui envient.
André Maurois • Climats (Littérature Française) (French Edition)
the woman’s body seems devoid
Simone De Beauvoir • The Second Sex
“You can recognize the people who live for others by the haunted look on the faces of the others.”)