Jean-Paul Sartre Short Quotes

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Existence precedes and rules essence.

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Human life begins on the far side of despair.

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I don't need God in order to love my neighbor.

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One does not adopt an idea, one slips into it.

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I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

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I confused things with their names: that is belief.

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…the prisoner's dreams is the guard's spirituality

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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

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Your church is a whore: she sells her favors to the rich.

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Communism I like, but Communist intellectuals are savages.

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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

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It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

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In order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.

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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.

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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Variant translation: It is certain that we can not overcome anguish, for we are anguish.

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I distrust the incommunicable: it is the source of all violence.

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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

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You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.

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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

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The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

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A victory described in detail is indistinguishable from a defeat.

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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

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I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

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When we want something, we always have to reckon with probabilities.

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