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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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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.
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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.
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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
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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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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world you want to blow it up.
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It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
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I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.
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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.
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I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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