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The Best Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
2
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
3
Hell is other people.
4
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
8
Life begins on the other side of despair.
9
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
10
Words are loaded pistols.

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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!
12
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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We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
18
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
22
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
23
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!

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

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.