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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Acting is happy agony.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Ability

Evil

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Fascism

Victims

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Fear

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Men