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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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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.
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What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
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I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.
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When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
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One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
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That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.
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[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.
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It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?
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