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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
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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My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
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A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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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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Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
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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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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy we feel that our existence is justified.
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This then is the age of reason.
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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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