Man is a useless passion. It is meaningless that we live and it is meaningless that we die.


Jean-Paul Sartre

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Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Words are loaded pistols
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it&...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE