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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].
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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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It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.
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My pessimism has never been flabby.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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There are two kinds of existentialist first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.
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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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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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Life is nothing until it is lived but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
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