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3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not judge the people we love.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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