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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
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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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Life is nothing until it is lived but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
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