Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, political activist, and writer, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology) and...

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In love, one and one are one.

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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

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For several years more I maintained public relations with the Almighty. But privately, I ceased to associate with him.

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Words are loaded pistols.

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me almost with tears in his eyes: "We have no dreams anymore since the British are in the country." When I asked him why, he answered, "The District Commissioner knows everything."

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