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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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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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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
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We do not judge the people we love.
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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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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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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere I am unwanted.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
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God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.
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