We said that freedom is not free not to be free and that it is not free not to exist. This is because the fact of not being able not to be free is the f acticity of freedom, and the fact of not being able not to exist is its contingency.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943). copy citation

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