French - Philosopher | June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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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.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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