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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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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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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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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
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Hell is for other people.
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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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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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Hell is other people at breakfast.
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