Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905 - 1980
Born: 21 June 1905, Paris, France
Died: 15 April 1980, Paris, France
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- A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - A man is what he wills himself to be. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - No Exit (1944) - A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - on declining the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature - A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - refusing the Nobel Prize, The New York Times (22 October 1964) - Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - All human activities are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed to failure. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness (1943) - All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea (1938) - As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Les Mains Sales [Dirty Hands] (1948) - As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea (1938) - Commitment is an act, not a word. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Everything has been figured out, except how to live. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre - "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" - Libération (22 June 1953) - Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. permalink
Jean-Paul Sartre
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