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I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.
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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When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
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What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
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To choose not to choose is still to act.
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
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If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.
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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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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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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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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
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Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !
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There is no love apart from the deeds of love no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
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Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred himself, his house, his land, his memories.
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