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So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.


Jean-Paul Sartre

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CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not...
GIL SCOTT-HERON It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.
MILTON R. SAPIRSTEIN Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound ...
IDA B. WELLS You can worship God twenty four hours a day but your destiny depends on the cards he lets you play
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse ...
ARUNDHATI ROY I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to...
MICHAEL SCHENKER Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
AMBROSE BIERCE Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmar...
EVGENY MOROZOV You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day -- not long and difficult p...
OG MANDINO You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day / not long and difficult pr...
OG MANDINO She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
JAMES PURDY Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television...
RUTH RENDELL I did not torture anyone.
FRANK SPINNER we do not torture.
GEORGE W. BUSH Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
MARKUS ZUSAK [Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a sma...
LAWRENCE MARTIN Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are he...
JEFFREY DEITCH Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you chose to suffer.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alon...
BOB MCNAIR Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
YOUSEF MUNAYYER I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the ...
MARIE LU We occasionally miss one or two during a performance, but we pretty much have it down. We practice t...
GREG MUELLER Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
TAHEREH MAFI Of the twenty-four hours a day,Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six o...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known th...
YOWERI MUSEVENI Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make ...
HARRY BROWNE Set a goal you need to reach during the day. Plan something and complete it, it will bring you pleas...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hou...
BLAC CHYNA The US government is not only failing to take steps to eradicate torture, it is actually creating a ...
CURT GOERING You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.
ALEX CHIU Every decision you ever make has its own consequences. Freedom is not the issue. You have freedom to...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A m...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A m...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to m...
HARRY BROWNE It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists ...
HENRIK IBSEN This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal crim...
JOHN YOO There are infinite ways for your mind to torture it's self.
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Success has a price. If you aren't prepared to pay it, you shouldn't expect to achieve it.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who doe...
STARHAWK We told him that people in his city supported the idea of stopping the torture, but he told us he di...
CASEY DAVIS that defined torture and showed that these acts were not torture and that these prisoners were not s...
GUY WOMACK There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialit...
THOMAS A. EDISON There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialit...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make ...
ALICE JAMES How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make ever...
ALICE JAMES Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
RICHARD LOUV When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
VICTORIA ABRIL The White House has dodged the truth about torture for too long. With reports of torture in the news...
DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ You receive the gift of time freely and equally every day, beautifully wrapped in twenty-four new ho...
MENSAH OTEH Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
JONATHAN SWIFT Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.
ANONYMOUS To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy in the course of living life tw...
W. BERAN WOLFE We see a lot of abuse to pit bulls. You have to abuse them a lot and torture them to make them mean.
AMY MALLO How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and...
ALICE JAMES One cannot pay a political price for peace. If we were to do so, terrorism would have won.
MARIANO RAJOY It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, eve...
THICH NHAT HANH I managed to survive the repression and the torture, but many others found it much more difficult. I...
AHMED HERZENNI After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
EMMANUELLE BEART There are only so many cheeks to turn before you die of torture by repetition, or your anger is some...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER If the price is too much, pay for your worth."
SUSIE L HILL All people have the same hours in the day. So how will you spend your 24 hours? What will you do tod...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.
BENJAMIN LEE WHORF Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Jordan, Egypt and Algeria all have a documented history of torture. Neither Britain nor any other co...
JOE STORK You cannot study the same day of a test, and expect to do your very best.
CHARMAINE J. FORDE I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo sl...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Meditating, meditating in remembrance, Nanak has found peace. Twenty-four hours a day, I sing Your G...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB This festival is amazing. I've wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is t...
ELIJAH WOOD The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your ow...
ANDY WARHOL There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One can...
WOODROW WILSON There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One c...
WOODROW T. WILSON Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water
BULGARIAN PROVERB If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
BULGARIAN PROVERB you begin to torment and torture the First Amendment.
JACK VALENTI It?s torture to do something you don?t like. It?s a constant, constant drain.
WOODY MILLER Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
DON ROFF Do you approve of torture?
ARLEN SPECTER It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow...
JOHN GREEN The Uzbek government's promises not to torture these men are not worth the paper they're written on....
HOLLY CARTNER Our report finds that there is a gap between policies leadership says it respects on paper, and beha...
DEBORAH PEARLSTEIN Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...
TOM BLANDI Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...
IRVING BERLIN The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers...
JERRY SEINFELD The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product o...
BRIAN TRACY You are the watcher; the mind is the watched. It is a beautiful mechanism, one of the most beautiful...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Using torture as a means of extracting evidence from a crime suspect should be totally abolished,but...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The authors suggest you should reserve four hours of non-interrupted time from your day only to work...
ALAN ADAMS Love is a reciprocal torture.
MARCEL PROUST So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано з...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The existentialist
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is—other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time expl...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy i...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I hate victims who respect their executioners.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is happy agony.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it mu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Commitment is an act, not a word.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp,...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not judge the people we love.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
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 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 If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a l...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Existence precedes and rules essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every man is condemned to freedom.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE In love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich make war it's the poor that die
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You are -- your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will beco...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to ref...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had rise...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am condemned to freedom. I am not free because I can make choices, but because I must make them, a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . bu...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There ar...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Aunque me quisiera con toda su alma, sería igualmente un amor de muerta.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I ta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experienc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Everything has been figured out, except how to live
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass itto...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at on...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of anoth...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ni siquiera sufrí; me sentía vacío.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is what he wills himself to be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Don’t be afraid; I’ll keep looking at you for ever and ever, without a flutter of my eyelids, an...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and yo...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE L'enfer, c'est les autres [Hell is other people]
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: What's the matter?

ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? Whe...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore.Your silence c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as wel...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you sa...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That sta...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumble...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might ha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemn...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
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 Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
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