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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
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 had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.
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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
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We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.
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Life is nothing until it is lived but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
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This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy we feel that our existence is justified.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
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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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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain cracked quality.
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This then is the age of reason.
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