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.