Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
― Jean Paul Sartre
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"To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head"
― Jean Paul Sartre
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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"Your judgement judges you and defines you."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
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"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best."
― Jean Paul Sartre
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"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."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."
― Jean Paul Sartre
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"Commitment is an act, not a word."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"We must act out passion before we can feel it."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."
― Jean Paul Sartre |
"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 your life."
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"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
― Jean Paul Sartre
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
― Jean Paul Sartre
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Nationality: French |
Born: June 21, 1905, Paris, France |
profession: Novelist, Philosopher, Playwright, Screenwriter, Political activist, Biographer, and Literary critic
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