There is a past only for a present which cannot exist without being its past—back there, behind itself; that is, only those beings have a past which are such that in their being, their past being is in question, those beings who have to be their past.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943). copy citation

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