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Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one does not love increasingly everyday.
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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.
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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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I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
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He chooses the most feared, most hated man in order to worship him as a god, feeling sure that he is alone in perceiving the god's secret virtues.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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Karsky:
I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo:
No.
Karsky:
It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo:
It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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So that's what Hell is: I'd never have believed it…Do you remember, brimstone, the stake, the gridiron?…What a joke! No need of a gridiron, Hell is other people.
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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.
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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
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In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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…the impossible must be supposed in order to explain the superdetermination of the event
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God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Born:
June 21, 1905
Died:
April 15, 1980
(aged 74)
Bio:
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
Known for:
No Exit (1947)
Nausea (1938)
The Flies (1944)
Being and Nothingness (1943)
No Exit and Three Other Plays (1948)
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