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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
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If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
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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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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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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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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world you want to blow it up.
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The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
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