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Full Idea
The existentialist, when he portrays a coward, shows him as responsible for his cowardice.
Gist of Idea
Cowards are responsible for their cowardice
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism and Humanism [1945], p.42)
Book Ref
Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'Existentialism and Humanism', ed/tr. Mairet,Philip [Methuen 1980], p.42