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A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But an adventure never returns nor is prolonged. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear ... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The 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 Sartre
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A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of the incarnations of problematism and of the ambiguity of contemporary thought (for Man does seem, to the contemporary mind, to be ambiguous). -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Words are loaded pistols. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Many people are walking along the shore, turning poetic springtime faces towards the sea; they're having a holiday because of the sun. [ ... ] The true sea is cold and black, full of animals; it crawls under this thin green film made to deceive human beings. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But you have to choose: live or tell. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We have so much difficulty imagining nothingness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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E is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. Real ladies do not know the price of things, they like adorable follies; their eyes are like beautiful, hothouse flowers. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?"

"Yes, naturally. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm - because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn't recognize it any more. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Even if she loved him with all her heart, it would still be the love of a dead woman. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For a moment I wondered if I were not going to
love humanity. But, after all, it was their Sunday, not mine. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself - in my mind. Painfully conscious. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man's existence precedes his essence -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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That's what I must avoid: I mustn't put strangeness where there's nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the look-out, and you continually stretch the truth. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A doll with skin like that isn't going to mess it up with a revolver shot. [ ... ] Revolvers are meant for crocodile-skins like ours. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But the end is there, transforming everything. For us, the man is already the hero of the story. His moroseness, his money troubles are much more precious than ours, they are all gilded by the light of future passions. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The aim of language ... is to communicate ... to impart to others the results one has obtained ... As I talk, I reveal the situation ... I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Death is a continuation of my life without me... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A man rarely feels like laughing alone. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? ... Ah, I see; it's life without a break. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am myself and I am here. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time, and they are quite right. Once they have been to bed together, they will have to find something else to conceal the enormous absurdity of their existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everywhere, now, there are objects like this glass of beer on the table there. When I see it, I feel like saying: "Enough." I realize quite well that I have -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am sure that fifteen minutes would be enough to reach supreme self-contempt. No thank you, I want none of that. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am responsible for everything ... except my very responsibility. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Though impervious to the sacred, I loved magic. The cinema was a suspect appearance that I loved perversely for what it still lacked. That streaming was everything, it was nothing, it was everything reduced to nothing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom - ah the soul-destroying boredom - of long days of mild content. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is - other people! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But what a poor lie: no one has any rights; they are entirely free, like other men, they cannot succeed in not feeling superfluous. And in themselves, secretly, they are superfluous, that is to say, amorphous, vague, and sad. How -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo: No.
Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is up to you to give life a meaning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing - not even a memory. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When you're alone, you're in bad compny -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Absurd, irreducible; nothing
not even a profound and secret delirium of nature
could explain [a tree root]. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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one cannot hate a man more than one can love him." The -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I scraped my heel against this black claw: I wanted to peel off some of the bark. For no reason at all, out of defiance, to make the bare pink appear absurd on the tanned leather: to play with the absurdity of the world. But, when I drew my heel back, I saw that the bark was still black. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total ... because it may well involve the whole world. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to refresh my memory: I need to feel all the tenderness that Anny inspires; it is there, this tenderness, it is near me, only asking to be born. But the smile does not return: it is finished. I remain dry and empty. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Acting is happy agony. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love - or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness ... and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is the being whose project it is to be God. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Three o'clock. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Do you regret those days?'
'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seed of death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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How nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am free,' he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing sense of anguish. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To exist is simply to he there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Can you justify your existence then? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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An existant can never justify the existence of another existant. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited ... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life, and stand at the beginning of a new existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The sun was clear and diaphanous like white win. Its light barely touched the moving figures, gave them no shadow, no relief: faces and hands made spots of pale gold. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Don't be afraid; I'll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, and you'll live in my gaze like a mote in a sunbeam. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Hell is other people at breakfast. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention ... We can only love on this earth and against God. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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M. de Rollebon was my partner; he needed me in order to exist and I needed him so as not to feel my existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Others quite new when covered with ice, all white, all throbbing, are like swans about to fly, but the earth has already caught them from below. They twist and tear themselves from the mud, only to be flattened out a little further on. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?" "With pleasure." I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night.
530: Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because ... you are always me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . . and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out. Lucid, -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian ... and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom ... I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Anyhow, isn't it better to think we've got here by
mistake? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is no reality exception in action. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nothingness haunts Being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all the way, as far as mouldiness, bloatedness, obscenity were concerned. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I hate victims who respect their executioners. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If values are vague, and if they are always too broad for the concrete and specific case that we are considering, the only thing left for us is to trust our instincts. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Perhaps there is nothing in the world I cling to as much as this feeling of adventure; but it comes when it pleases; it is gone so quickly and how empty I am once it has left. Does it, ironically, pay me these short visits in order to show me that I have wasted my life? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I liked this shop very much, it has a cynical and obstinate look, it insolently recalled the rights of dirt and vermin, only two paces from the most costly church in France. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A good hanging now and then
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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How far away from them I feel, up on this hill. It seems to me that I belong to another species. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Lucien thought with bitter pleasure that his parents found him looking fine. "I don't exist." He closed his eyes and let himself drift: existence is an illusion because I know I don t exist, all I have to do is plug my ears and not think about anything and I'll become nothingness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is no need for hell fire in hell. Hell is other people. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The
Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon; but I no longer have to bear it, it is
no longer an illness or a passing fit: it is I. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Suddenly they existed, then suddenly they existed no longer: existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing - not even a memory. Existence everywhere, infinitely, in excess, for ever and everywhere; existence - which is limited only by existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift ... that's nausea. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population ... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Aegistheus, the kings have another secret ... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty
that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You believe that you believe, but you don't believe. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence - and there's quite enough existence as it is. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is condemned to be free; -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life begins on the other side of despair. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You are -- your life, and nothing else. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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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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You take souls for vegetables ... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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to do something is to create existence -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We do not judge the people we love. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . . . But my place is nowhere; I am unwanted, de trop. The -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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...man is a useless passion. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Hell is for other people. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In love, one and one are one. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When it is dark, the objects and I will come out of limbo -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Neither sad nor gay is the desert - a boundless waste of sand under a burning waste of sky. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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They dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove ... Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence, my very flesh throbbed and opened, abandoned itself to the universal burgeoning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Her eyes stare at me but she seems not to see me; she looks as though she were lost in her suffering. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not think therefore I am a moustache -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The diversity of things, their individuality, were only an appearance, a veneer. This veneer had melted,
leaving soft, monstrous masses, all in disorder - naked, in a frightful, obscene nakedness. I kept myself from making the slightest movement, but I didn't need to move in order to -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The simplest, most indefinable quality had too much content, in relation to itself, in its heart. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
Render a kiss or blow
But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
Offer all the hatred in your heart
For you were slaves and he enslaves you -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Farewell, beautiful
lilies, elegant in your painted little sanctuaries, good-bye, lovely lilies, our pride and reason for
existing, good-bye you bastards! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think ... and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life is a useless passion. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is a profound boredom, profound, the profound heart of existence, the very matter I am made of. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at
that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he told
his wife, as one of my uncles told his, who
had watched beside him for twelve nights, I do not thank you, Therese; you have only done your
duty. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Commitment is an act, not a word -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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And you know what wickedness is, and shame, and fear. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Some of these days,
Oh, you'll miss me honey -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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L'homme est condamne a' e tre libre. Man is condemned to be free. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Is there really nothing, nothing left of me? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has an infinite interest in himself and his destiny. Secondly, the existent individual always feels himself to be in Becoming, with a task before him; -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being
good for all. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All was fullness and all was active, there was no weakness in time, all, even the least perceptible stirring, was made of existence. And all these existents which bustled about this tree came from nowhere and were going nowhere. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It's strange. I felt less lonely when I didn't know you. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Something I didn't know any more: a sort of joy. The -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is prior to essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I had been born in order to fill
the great need I had of myself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You are what you are not and are not what you are. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Happiness is not doing what you want but wanting what you do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Because we can imagine, we are free. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To choose not to choose is still to act. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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This then is the age of reason. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All of us abandon ourselves to existence, because we were among
ourselves, only among ourselves, it has taken us unawares, in the disorder, the day to day drift: I am
ashamed for myself and for what exists in front of it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Emotion is first of all and in principle an accident -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence
- as not-bound to life. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man must be invented each day -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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To exist is to create your own life. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I was nowhere, I was floating. I was not surprised, I knew it was the World, the naked World suddenly revealing itself, and I choked with rage at this gross, absurd being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in ... but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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All of a sudden something breaks off sharply. The adventure is over, time resumes its daily routine. I turn; behind me, this beautiful melodious form sinks entirely into the past. It grows smaller, contracts as it declines, and now the end makes one with the beginning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Tuesday:
Nothing. Existed. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I feel there are no more perfect moments. I feel it in my legs when I walk. I feel it all the time, even when I sleep. I can't forget it. I am dazzled, uncomfortable, I can't get used to it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal ... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, now what? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence precedes and rules essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be - and behind them . . . there is nothing. This -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety,
moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of
excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Reflection poisons desire. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I confused things with their names: that is belief. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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your judgement judges you and defines you -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours ... I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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they think about Tomorrow, that is to say, simply, a new today; -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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L'enfer c'est les autres.
aka, "Hell is others." . -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Introspection is always retrospection -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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How can you expect my character to be solidly real, to be anything other than obviously imaginary, when everything is contingent anyway? My Character has been deformed out of reality by his own nihilism, his own metaphysical nothingness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The most clear-sided view of the darkest
possible situation is itself an act of optimism -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. That gesture, for instance, the red hand picking up the cards and fumbling: it is all flabby. It would have to be ripped apart and tailored inside. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We are in hell, my dear, there is never a mistake and people are not damned for nothing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is what he wills himself to be. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What is there to fear in such a regular world? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in which to smooth out their wrinkles, their crow's feet, the bitter lines made by a hard week's work. One day only. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The truth is that I can't put down my pen: I think I'm going to have the Nausea and I feel as though I'm delaying it while writing. So I write whatever comes into my mind. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet I know that I exist, that I am here. Now -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So I was a poodle of the future; I made prophecies. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Freedom only gives you something to be sorry for. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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[E]very man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything is silent again: but it isn't the same silence. It's raining: tapping lightly against the frosted glass windows; if there are any more masked children in the street, the rain is going to spoil their cardboard masks. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is always more valuable to report the truth. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I go out. Why? Well,because I have no reason not to go out either -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every human endeavor, however singular it seems, involves the whole human race. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life gave me everything I asked
If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The true sea is cold and black, full of animals... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also to feelings of hope and confidence? -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What is not possible is not to choose. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing ... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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10The genius of Proust is the totality of the works of Proust -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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An individual chooses and makes himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency ... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is free rather than man is freedom. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Hell is - other people! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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But you looked much more like a fellow who had just realised that he has been living on ideas that don't pay. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I ... because ... ugh! -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Two people can form a community by excluding a third. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am illuminated within by a diminishing light. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The past is the luxury of proprietors. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Never were we freer than under the German Occupation. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We are abandoned in the world ... in the sense that we find ourselves suddenly alone and without help. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I found everything perfectly clear, and I really understood absolutely nothing. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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This is the girl, here, this girl with a ruined look who touches me and whom I love. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Black, like the circle, did not exist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I know only one Church: it is the society of men. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is only in our decisions that we are important. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be ... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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You have to aspire to everything to have hopes of doing something. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We must act out passion before we can feel it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Men get the war they deserve. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We make our own hell out of the people around us. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is an imperfection. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Existence is a fullness which man can never abandon. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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We are our choices. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Celebrity, for me, equal hatred -- Jean-Paul Sartre