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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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 know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
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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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The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
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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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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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