A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Acting is happy agony.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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.
Hell is other people.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Words are loaded pistols.
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