I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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About Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and was a proponent of Libertarian Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official h…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Jean-Paul SartreFreedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
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.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
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 p…