Only the dead can be perpetually objects without every becoming subjects—for to die is not to lose one’s objectivity in the midst of the world; all the dead are there in the world around us.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Being and Nothingness
Topic world subject
Date 1943
Language English
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Note Translated by Hazel E. Barnes
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