“What I like about my madness is that it has protected me from the very beginning against the charms of the ‘élite’: never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a ‘talent’; my sole concern has been to save myself – nothing in my hands, nothing up my sleeve – by work and faith. As a result, my pure choice did not raise me above anyone. Without equipment, without tools, I set all of me to work in order to save all of me. If I relegate impossible Salvation to the proproom, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.”
---Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words
Friday, March 10, 2006
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well...did he save himself?
Well, i don't know. And I don't know if saving oneself is something that ever has a point where success or failure can be determined. Isn't it a constantly ongoing process?
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