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Jean-Paul Sartre

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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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It is only in our decisions that we are important.


— 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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