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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Essays in Aesthetics by Jean-Paul Sartre (Open Road Media, 2012) - ISBN: 9781453228562
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Acting is happy agony.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Act 2, sc. 3 - The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
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Jean-Paul Sartre

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Essays in Aesthetics (2012 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781453228562
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Jean-Paul Sartre

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Nausea (1938)
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Act 5, sc. 3 - Dirty Hands (1948)
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Essays in Aesthetics (2012 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781453228562
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Act 11, sc. 2 - The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Commitment is an act, not a word.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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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

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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Source/Notes: Essays in Aesthetics (2012 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781453228562
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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre

“Existence precedes and rules essence.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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