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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.


Jean-Paul Sartre

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CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmar...
EVGENY MOROZOV She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o...
ROMAN PAYNE 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 She kept her head about her, she kept her wits about her, she was observant, she paid attention, she...
ROB DAVIS She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
BOB FOSSE When had being an addict gotten so fucking hard? So exhausting? It had been so easy for so long; she...
STACIA KANE Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not und...
ERNEST GEORGE HENHAM She believed in you. You took advantage of her situation by taking her money, her car and her life.
JOSEPH ROSS Everyone was interviewed exhaustively, ... No one believed she would abandon her child, and no one i...
ANTHONY MURPHY Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought ...
CHARLES FINCH The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he...
PHILLIP NOYCE There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional...
ANN NOCENTI Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husba...
GLENN HAYBITTLE She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
BOB FOSSE Her brothers kept wrestling her at the house. She kept asking her dad if she could wrestle and he wo...
KATHY MCCAULEY Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was calle...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I can't give her a hundred percent today because she missed some of her spots, but she kept them fro...
BRIAN DEVILLE When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career...
SHERYL SANDBERG There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she w...
CORNELIA FUNKE Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w...
COURTNEY CAROLA She probably came from nothing, so it was very important to her in her adult life to have everything...
ELIZABETH PERKINS She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h...
CASSANDRA CLARE 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 She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
TERRY PRATCHETT She told me he would not leave her alone. He wouldn't take no for an answer. He kept driving by her ...
DEBI BELL After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined h...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started...
REGINA BRETT She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it ...
JOSEPH FINK He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f...
SUMMER HINES [Opponents had dubbed her] Mean Jean ... their commander in chief.
ROB PORTMAN She kept the drinks in a refrigerator in her office and drank four or five a day. It's an energy dri...
LINDA JACKSON Avis named her business Paradise Pastry because she imagined cathedrals. She thought about the stone...
DIANA ABU-JABER I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my...
MICHAEL NEWDOW She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness.
...
CLARA DIANE THOMPSON There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still k...
KRISTEN MCKEE She was the kind of person who believed in the Lord and worshipped Him. She adored her grandchildren...
BROOKE BUETTI She's only 5-7, but she has the strength underneath. She got most of her points off inside baskets, ...
LYNN RIBOLINI When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
TACITUS When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she...
AKSHAY VASU She firmly believed in raising her kids through the church. Even through cancer and chemotherapy, sh...
LARONDA BULLARD She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring.

She doesn’t we...
ANNE BEREST AUDREY DIWAN CAROLINE DE MAIGRET AND SOPHIE MAS Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me...
PAULO COELHO Kyle kept the pressure on me all day and her short game is outstanding. She has a presence about her...
JULIE GARNER To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly n...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be sepa...
SHANNON A. THOMPSON Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all ps...
CRAIG FERGUSON She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there wa...
LORA LEIGH She was nice. She was so sweet. I rode the bus with her and I kept asking, why did he shoot her?
ASHLEY MORRISON Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre...
ELIZABETH GILBERT She didn't have anyone pushing her, but because she was able to pass people, it kept her going. I ne...
JENNA BOND Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature ma...
GEORGE CHAPMAN As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the ...
GEENA DAVIS She was holding, her sister was on top of her, and she got the impact from being thrown and that's w...
BARBARA GREEN The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She...
HAN KANG She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than a...
STEVEN LEVENKRON My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot o...
PALOMA FAITH When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she ke...
SANYA RICHARDS But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Quee...
ANTHONY HOLDEN She wouldn't shut up she kept mouthing, so I hit her with the ladder.
ALAN BROWN My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
JEANNETTE WALLS Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN C.J. had a huge game for us. She kept us in the game. She kept it from being close.
DALE WATKINS Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated u...
CARYS BRAY She kept it in her upstairs bedroom. It would hang in a closet by its tail.
ALICE GILBORN Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything ...
RICHELLE MEAD I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Her beauty lies in her work. She looks the most beautiful in the field -- natural, no makeup, nothin...
WYCLEF JEAN She was burned in multiple places over her body from her head to her toes.
GREGORY CLARK She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If...
ANN BRASHARES She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it
JOYCE CAROL OATES She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her wherever she goes.
UNKNOWN Jean provided steady offensive production, with double digit scoring in 22 of the 23 games. Jean is ...
DENNIS MACKEY I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches o...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...
BRAM STOKER Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despit...
G.G. RENEE HILL There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her ...
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It fu...
YO YO At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD If she (Mitchell) went high (post), Danielle took the baseline and if she went low, she fronted her ...
VINCE CATANZARO She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
DAVID GEST Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert...
LAINI TAYLOR I was impressed with her poise. I thought she kept it together. She didn't get wild.
TIFFANI AIRMET After the storm, she kept up with so many people, although she had her own problems.
PAT DESCHER If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this."
She sh...
JAIME RUSH It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply lik...
IAN MCEWAN I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, he...
BILL CLINTON An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our...
ANTHONY LICCIONE There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I don't know what she was thinking. She is just a young girl, and she must have panicked. I heard he...
ANTHONY FARRISI She's tough. Of course she stayed in. She only has a bruise on her left arm, not her pitching arm.
CHAD LARSEN Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose i...
BRIT BENNETT I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywh...
BERENICE BEJO

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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 already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано з...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is—other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I hate victims who respect their executioners.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is happy agony.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Commitment is an act, not a word.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp,...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a l...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Existence precedes and rules essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every man is condemned to freedom.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich make war it's the poor that die
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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 All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You are -- your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will beco...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to ref...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had rise...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . bu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There ar...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I ta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass itto...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at on...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of anoth...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ni siquiera sufrí; me sentía vacío.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is what he wills himself to be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Don’t be afraid; I’ll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, an...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and yo...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE L'enfer, c'est les autres [Hell is other people]
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: What's the matter?

ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? Whe...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore.Your silence c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as wel...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you sa...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That sta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 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...
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