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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I considered calmly that I was born to write.
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
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This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy we feel that our existence is justified.
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Perception is naturally surpassed toward action better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an always future hollow, for we are always future to ourselves.
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
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Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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My pessimism has never been flabby.
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The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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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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Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
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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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