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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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He chooses the most feared, most hated man in order to worship him as a god, feeling sure that he is alone in perceiving the god’s secret virtues.
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Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
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In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
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For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.
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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.
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I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that’s what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality
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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.
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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For Genet, Beauty will be the offensive weapon that will enable him to beat the just on their own ground: that of value.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life
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Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
Jean-Paul Sartre