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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Life

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life begins on the other side of despair.

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

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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About War

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

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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.

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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

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

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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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

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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

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

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

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

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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

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

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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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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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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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

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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

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

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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

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

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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

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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.

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

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

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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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

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

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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I confused things with their names: that is belief.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

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It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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