Jean-Paul Sartre

"Sadism is the rage of powerlessness masquerading as strength."

"Words are loaded pistols when you're at war."

"Life has meaning only insofar as it aims at meaning."

"The absurd is the essential concept and the only truth."

"We must accept responsibility for what we are."

"To understand a person, look not at their choices but at their dreams."

"Consciousness can never be anything but a particular modality of existence."

"The reader is a freedom who makes the work possible."

"No finite being can create the infinite."

"Man's responsibility is total."

"We are always thrown into the world."

"The past is only the past when someone makes it so."

"Character is not fate; it is a series of choices."

"Genius is not a gift, but a way of relating to the world."

"Violence is an action; it transforms those who commit it."

"We seek to become what we have always been."

"Intellectual honesty demands we acknowledge our freedom constantly."

"The only real liberation is self-actualization."

"Art is freedom and responsibility simultaneously."

"Every person is the sum of their projects."

"Being is only insofar as it is for consciousness."

"We are always alone, even in company."

"The moment you think you're an expert, you're already learning less."

"History is a vast nightmare from which we are trying to awake."

"Politics is the art of making the possible impossible."

"Death is not an event in life; we do not experience death."

"Art is a moral endeavor."

"We choose not because we are free, but we are free because we choose."

"The highest truth is that we are always choosing ourselves."

"Literature engages the freedom of the reader."