There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Wisdom
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Wisdom
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Wisdom
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Freedom
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Life
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Wisdom
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Life
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Wisdom
Hell is other people.
Wisdom
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Truth
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Wisdom
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Wisdom
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Wisdom
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Wisdom
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Wisdom
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
Wisdom
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Success
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
Wisdom
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Wisdom
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