In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself. We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim. Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. - 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. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
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