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I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.
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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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.
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You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer I don't tease nicely.
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
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On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries they are just good enough to be assassins.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
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It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life they think of money and take care of themselves.
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
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