Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre
French writer and philosopher
Alive from: 1905-1980
Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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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.
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Hell is other people.
Origineel:L'enfer, c'est les autres.
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Man is a useless passion.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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