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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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 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.
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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.
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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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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
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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.
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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.
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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.
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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.
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
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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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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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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 admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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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!
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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
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Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.
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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.
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