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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

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

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is happy agony.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

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

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 poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Jean-Paul Sartre

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not judge the people we love.

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

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Jean-Paul Sartre

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre