Jean-Paul Sartre quotes

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Hell is other people. View quote
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Words are loaded pistols. View quote
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. View quote
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I am condemned to be free. View quote
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. View quote
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. View quote
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I hate victims who respect their executioners. View quote
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. View quote
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. View quote
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
To eat is to appropriate by destruction. View quote
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Life begins on the other side of despair. View quote
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. View quote
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. View quote
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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. View quote
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. View quote
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. View quote
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. View quote
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. View quote
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. View quote
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

French Philosopher
Born: June 21, 1905
Died: April 15, 1980
Quotes count: 371
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