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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives ones death, one dies on
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life"

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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This quote by Jean-Paul Sartre talks to the concept of the human experience being a cycle of life and death. We are constantly in a state of flux, continuously altering and progressing. We are both what we are going to end up being and what we are going to cease to be. We are living our death, as we are constantly in a state of modification and change, and we are dying our life, as we are constantly leaving the old and accepting the new. This quote speaks with the concept that life is a cycle of modification and transformation, which we are constantly in a state of flux. We are both what we are going to become and what we are going to stop to be. We are living our death and dying our life, as we are continuously in a state of change and improvement. This quote talks to the idea that life is a cycle of change and transformation, and that we are continuously in a state of flux.

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Jean-Paul Sartre This quote is written / told by Jean-Paul Sartre between June 21, 1905 and April 15, 1980. He was a famous Philosopher from France. The author also have 58 other quotes.

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