Jean-Paul Sartre

France
21 Jun 1905 // 15 Apr 1980
Philosopher / Writer

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Acting is happy agony
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do
Hell is other people
Everything has been figured out, except how to live
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays