I confused things with their names: that... by Jean-Paul Sartre | We Heart Quotes

Author philosopher Freedom playwright Nobel Prize

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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Want

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Man

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

May War World

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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