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Jean-paul Sartre Quotes


Hell is other people.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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

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

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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

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

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

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

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.