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The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
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 have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
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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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I distrust the incommunicable it is the source of all violence
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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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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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My pessimism has never been flabby.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.
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