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Quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.
~ 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
Hell is other people at breakfast.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
~ 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