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Commitment is an act, not a word.
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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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries they are just good enough to be assassins.
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Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
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I considered calmly that I was born to write.
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First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: Thou shalt not lie, there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.
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I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.
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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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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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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
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Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.
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