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Jean Paul Sartre
June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980
Nationality: French
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: French Philosopher

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

   

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

   

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

   

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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 you life.

   

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

   

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

   

We do not judge the people we love.

   

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

   

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