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" God is absence. God is the solitude of man. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
God
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" As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. "
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" To eat is to appropriate by destruction. "
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" There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. "
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" Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. "
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" Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. "
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" You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen. "
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" Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. "
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" Acting is happy agony. "
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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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" Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. "
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" I hate victims who respect their executioners. "
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" Existence precedes and rules essence. "
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Essence
Precedes
" Life begins on the other side of despair. "
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" Commitment is an act, not a word. "
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" We must act out passion before we can feel it. "
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" I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. "
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You
Abstract
Anything
" Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. "
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" Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. "
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Choose
History
" Everything has been figured out, except how to live. "
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Live
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" The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. "
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Finance
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" All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. "
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" If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. "
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" For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. "
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" Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. "
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War
Well
" Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
Could
Sum
Rather
" The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. "
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Anguish
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" Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. "
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" 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. "
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