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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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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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This then is the age of reason.
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Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
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A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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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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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
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Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
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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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