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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
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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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.
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I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
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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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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
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Before you come alive, life is nothing it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
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So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
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An individual chooses and makes himself.
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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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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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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