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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Confused, Belief, Names
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Victory, Defeat, Longer
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Son, Afraid, Honest
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hard, Victory, Once
Existence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Rules, Existence, Essence
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
God, Solitude, Absence
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Point, Meaning, Infinite
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
Life, Death, Become
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre
God, Forget, Cannot
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Experience, Acting, Question
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Give, Enough, Blood
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sex, Human, Characters
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, Care, Justice
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Away, Themselves
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Become, Adventure, Necessary
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
God, Men, Truth
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Someone, Single, Worth
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Cannot, Become, Works
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Eat
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Jean-Paul Sartre
Knows, Resources, Exhaust
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
War, May, Another

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Nationality: French
Born: June 21, 1905
Died: April 15, 1980

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