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«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth»
«Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.»
«Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Actors and acting
| Keywords:
absorbing, absorbs, acting, adding, of your own, personalities, Some of
«No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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finite, point of reference, reference, references, reference point, with reference to
«We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Responsibility
«Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
«If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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literature
«I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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abandoned, compelled, engaged, foundation, instant, responsible for, sense of responsibility, suddenly, tear, The Foundation, The sense
«The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.»
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