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Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
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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If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly leave it on earth: die light.
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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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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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world you want to blow it up.
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
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