Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Life
- 1905-1980
- Occupations
- playwright, epistemologist, novelist
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Jean-Paul Sartre
There’s no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is- other people!
Jean-Paul Sartre
There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is- other people! No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre
To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out- but you can’t prevent your being there.
Jean-Paul Sartre
To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out- but you can't prevent your being there. No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre