Jean-Paul Sartre

Quote: It is only in our decisions that we are important. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Life begins on the other side of despair. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Hell is other people. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: To eat is to appropriate by destruction. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Man is a useless passion. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Everything has been figured out, except how to live. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: We must act out passion before we can feel it. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: When the rich wage war it is the poor who die. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Words are loaded pistols. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: I hate victims who respect their executioners. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

Quote: Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. [Jean-Paul Sartre]

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