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The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.
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 Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
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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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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
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Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I wrote in Les Mots that I have often thought against myself. That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.
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When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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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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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
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What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.
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