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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being

Nothing

Skepticism

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Adventure

Words are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Decisions

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Men

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Company

Lonely

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Son

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Belief

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

People

Hell

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.