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Jean Paul Sartre Quotes

Biography: Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, ... more Biography: Jean-Paul Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. Known for his works like "Being and Nothingness" and "Nausea," Sartre explored themes of freedom, identity, and human consciousness. He rejected the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964. less
"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius."
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"It is not enough to want, one has to act."
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"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."
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"Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose."
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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."
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
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"It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are."
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"We must act out passion before we can feel it."
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"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
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"Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident."
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"To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of that which is chosen."
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
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"When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die."
Tags: Social justice, Sacrifice, War, Poverty, Inequality
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