It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden

Fight Club

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Topic

Nothing to lose Freedom Liberation

Speaker

Tyler Durden

Actor

Brad Pitt

Source

Fight Club

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises/Linson Films, 1999.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Declaration of Independence
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Language
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Time
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United States Declaration of Independence. 1776, preamble.

Current Citation

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Actor
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Language
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Time
1950 1950s 20th century
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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

Another quote of the following type Paradox

I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness

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Author

Jean-Paul Sartre
Source
Being and Nothingness
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.