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Jean-Paul Sartre

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I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#death

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#life #life

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#hœderer #life

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#literature #reading #religion

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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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.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#equality #god #humanism #prophecy #religion






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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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