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Jean Paul Sartre
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„What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.“
„Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.“
„Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.“
„Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.“
„He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.“
„The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.“
„To eat is to appropriate by destruction.“
„It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake“
„I know only one Church: it is the society of men.“
„All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?“
„…man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.“
„If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.“
„If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.“
„But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.“
„How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?“
„For Genet, Beauty will be the offensive weapon that will enable him to beat the just on their own ground: that of value.“
„: From the introduction to The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.“
„In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject.“
„Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.“
„It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.“
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