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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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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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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
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I distrust the incommunicable it is the source of all violence
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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
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It is always more valuable to report the truth.
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
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