Who can not see that the sincere man constitutes himself as a thing in order to escape the condition of a thing by the same act of sincerity? The man who confesses that he is evil has exchanged his disturbing “freedom-for-evil” for an inanimate character of evil; he is evil, he clings to himself, he is what he is.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943). copy citation

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