"Better to die on one's feet than…" — Jean Paul Sartre

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Mieux vaut mourir debout que de vivre à genoux.

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Translations

“Doing is being”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Acting is happy agony.”

“When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.”

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company”

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