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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
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My pessimism has never been flabby.
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Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.
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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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The absurd man will not commit suicide he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
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