Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Hell is other people.
 
Words are loaded pistols.
 
We do not judge the people we love.
 
Existence precedes and rules essence.
 
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
 
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
 
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
 
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
 
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
 
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
 
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
 
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
 
The existentialist declares willingly that man is anguish.
 
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
 
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
 
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
 
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
 
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
 
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
 
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
 
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