841 Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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    What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

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    Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.

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    There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

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    I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

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    The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

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    I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

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    When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

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