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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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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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The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
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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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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
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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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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
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Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
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The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
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