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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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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Hell is other people at breakfast.
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
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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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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
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Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
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It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
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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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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
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Absurd, irreducible nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer I don't tease nicely.
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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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 best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
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I wrote in Les Mots that I have often thought against myself. That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.
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