One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
Jean-Paul SartreThe For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
Jean-Paul SartreAs if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
Jean-Paul Sartre