Quotes by Sartre, Jean-Paul

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on decisions
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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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."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on existence
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on fascism
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"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on food and eating   

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on freedom
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on generosity   

"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."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on generosity   

"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on hell
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"Man is a useless passion."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on humankind   

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life   

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life   

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on literature   

"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on love
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"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life
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"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on passion   

"When the rich wage war it is the poor who die."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on poverty and the poor
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on respectability
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on responsibility
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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."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on responsibility   

"Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on time
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"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on victory   

"Words are loaded pistols."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on words
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"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on action   

"We are condemned to be free."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on existentialism