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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Existence precedes and rules essence.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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I confused things with their names: that is belief.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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And he was publiJean-Paul Sartred". S. As such death emphasizes the burden of our free individual existence.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution". Sartre has also been noted for his relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir who rejected his proposal for marriage on more than one occasion. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑrtrə/; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher playwright novelist screenwriter political activist biographer and literary critic.

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