Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can’t make head or tail: you’d make a terrible witness.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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The past is the luxury of proprietors.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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