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To choose not to choose is still to act.
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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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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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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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
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You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.
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[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason it no longer interests me.
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As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.
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There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.
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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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