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Jean-Paul Sartre

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My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


Acting is happy agony.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.


— Jean-Paul Sartre


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And he was publiJean-Paul Sartred". S. As such death emphasizes the burden of our free individual existence.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution". Sartre has also been noted for his relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir who rejected his proposal for marriage on more than one occasion. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑrtrə/; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher playwright novelist screenwriter political activist biographer and literary critic.

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