Inspiring Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre - Page 2

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

"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear"

"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"

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

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

"We must act out passion before we can feel it"

"Existence precedes and rules essence"

"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"

"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away"

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