Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
– JeanPaul Sartre
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- A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil. – JeanPaul Sartre
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- When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die. – JeanPaul Sartre
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- Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands. – JeanPaul Sartre
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- Commitment is an act, not a word – JeanPaul Sartre
- I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. – JeanPaul Sartre
- My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them. – JeanPaul Sartre
- Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a ???????ute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. – JeanPaul Sartre
- Only he who knows how to speak can be silent. – JeanPaul Sartre
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- This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. – JeanPaul Sartre
- I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. – JeanPaul Sartre
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- What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it. – JeanPaul Sartre
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