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“I by not doing, not by doing, lost”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“We speak more freely of our emotional complexes than of our material condition or of our socio-professional milieu; we prefer to ask ourselves about the homosexual component of our characters than about the history which has made us and which we have made. We too are victims and accomplices of alienation, reification, mystification. We too stagger beneath 'the weight of things said and done', of lies accepted and transmitted without belief. But we have no wish to know it. We are like sleepwalkers treading in a gutter, dreaming of our genitals rather than looking at our feet.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Between Existentialism and Marxism

“Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. pg. xxxiii”
― Simone de Beauvoir