1. Jean Paul Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th more..more..

2. “ Jean Paul:To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. #Belief#Belief

3. “ Jean Paul:As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. ##

4. “ Jean Paul:A man is what he wills himself to be. #Will and Will Power#Will and Will Power

5. “ Jean Paul:All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. #Books - Reading#Books - Reading

6. “ Jean Paul:I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail. #Dogs#Dogs

7. “ Jean Paul:As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. #Love#Love

8. “ Jean Paul:The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. #Difficulties#Difficulties

9. “ Jean Paul:Everything has been figured out except how to live. #Life and Living #Life and Living

10. “ Jean Paul:When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness. #Friends and Friendship#Friends and Friendship

11. “ Jean Paul:As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. #Truth#Truth

12. “ Jean Paul:It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood. #Love#Love

13. “ Jean Paul:I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning. #Kisses and Kissing#Kisses and Kissing

14. “ Jean Paul:Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear. #Fear#Fear

15. “ Jean Paul:Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. #Age and Aging#Age and Aging

16. “ Jean Paul:Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right? #Family#Family

17. “ Jean Paul:Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. #Responsibility#Responsibility

18. “ Jean Paul:They are in bad faith—they are afraid—and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls. #Home#Home

19. “ Jean Paul:I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that’s what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse! #Dissent#Dissent

20. “ Jean Paul:I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. #Life and Living#Life and Living

21. “ Jean Paul:I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. #Writers and Writing#Writers and Writing

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