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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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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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 will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough.
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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
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She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
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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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Introspection is always retrospection
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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