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Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.
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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
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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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What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
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All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
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There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.
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The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
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To choose not to choose is still to act.
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Perception is naturally surpassed toward action better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an always future hollow, for we are always future to ourselves.
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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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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
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