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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
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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At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.
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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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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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A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up I forget them almost immediately.
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Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !
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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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There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
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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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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
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The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
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The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.
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I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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