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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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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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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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your judgement judges you and defines you
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L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.
Jean-Paul Sartre
In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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I considered calmly that I was born to write.
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I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.
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Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
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Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.
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Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.
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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
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