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Man's existence precedes his essence
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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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself me, the man.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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I wrote in Les Mots that I have often thought against myself. That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.
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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
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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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There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
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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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Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
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Man is what he wills himself to be.
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I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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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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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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