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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.


Jean Paul

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multi...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE