Sartre, Jean-Paul

"Existence precedes essence"

"We are our choices"

"Man is condemned to be free"

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you"

"We are left alone, without excuse"

"Bad faith is a lie to oneself"

"Hell is other people"

"Life is what you make it"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence itself is an act of rebellion"

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself"

"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself"

"There is no genius except the genius of hard work"

"Everything has been figured out except how to live"

"It is the responsibility of the artist to refuse to accept the world as it is"

"One does not become fully human painlessly"

"Writing is the passion of my life"

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself"

"The important thing is not life, but what we do with life"

"Freedom is infinite responsibility"

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes"

"Anguish is the dizziness of freedom"

"Generosity is nothing else than a problem of arithmetic"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"Everything that is necessary is imperfect"

"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat"

"In order to get any feeling of security or love, we have to betray ourselves"

"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room"

"Fascism cannot cross the threshold of a poor home"

"The best way to protect freedom is to exercise it"

"To choose to be something is to affirm at the same time that such a thing is good"