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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre, Words
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmar...
EVGENY MOROZOV
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it h...
ALAN ALDA
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
HOWARD JACOBSON
stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says t...
UNKNOWN
When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me t...
JERRY HALL
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
ELIZABETH GEORGE
Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA
To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON
To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
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And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
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There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON
Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN
It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.
SLICK RICK
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
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The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
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Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
MARIANNE MOORE
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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An actor must never be afraid to make a fool of himself.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away...
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
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How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
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How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
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Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
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Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
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Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
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Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo
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It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.
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The security institution is a red line. We will not allow anyone to tamper with it.
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She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Hell is other people.
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the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
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Man is a useless passion.
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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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...
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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The existentialist
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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Hell is—other people!
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If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
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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...
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
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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 t...
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I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
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We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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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 ...
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
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Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
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We do not judge the people we love
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
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Acting is happy agony.
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp,...
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We do not judge the people we love.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
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Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
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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 m...
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, ...
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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
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One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a l...
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Existence precedes and rules essence.
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Every man is condemned to freedom.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
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Man is condemned to be free.
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In love, one and one are one.
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For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to a...
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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of ...
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
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When the rich make war it's the poor that die
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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...
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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.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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You are -- your life, and nothing else.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
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I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will beco...
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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to ref...
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He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had rise...
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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
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I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, a...
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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...
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . bu...
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There ar...
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It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. ...
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Aunque me quisiera con toda su alma, sería igualmente un amor de muerta.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I ta...
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Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a...
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What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
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Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass itto...
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So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four h...
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at on...
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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of anoth...
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She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
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Ni siquiera sufrí; me sentía vacío.
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
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Man is what he wills himself to be.
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Don’t be afraid; I’ll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, an...
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INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and yo...
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L'enfer, c'est les autres [Hell is other people]
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Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
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Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could ...
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Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.
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Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core
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INEZ: What's the matter?

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You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
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Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
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INEZ: To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore.Your silence c...
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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 wel...
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There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you sa...
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Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like ...
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So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That sta...
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...
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INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ...
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
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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 t...
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
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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 al...
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
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To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
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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
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might ha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Words are loaded pistols
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it&...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE