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Famous Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.”
“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
“When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.”
“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”
“I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
Source: Nausea
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Source: Existentialism
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
Source: No exit, and three other plays
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
Source: Nausea
“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.”
“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”