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> [Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/who-can-exhaust-a-man-who-knows-a-man-s-resources/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-don-t-know-everything-living-smoking/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [I know only one Church: it is the society of men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-know-only-one-church-it-is-the-society-of-men/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [“Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/only-he-who-knows-how-to-speak-can-be-silent/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/it-is-not-a-matter-of-indifference-whether-we-like-oysters-or-clams/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-can-always-choose-but-i-ought-to-know-that-if-i-do-not-choose-i-am/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-painful-secret-of-gods-and-kings-is-that-men-are-free-aegistheus/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/once-we-know-and-are-aware-we-are-responsible-for-our-action-and-our/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/when-you-live-alone-you-no-longer-know-what-it-is-to-tell-a-story-the/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/on-my-way-to-the-office-in-the-morning-there-are-in-front-of-me/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/you-know-how-much-i-admire-che-guevara-in-fact-i-believe-that-the-man/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/with-despair-true-optimism-begins-the-optimism-of-the-man-who-expects/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [ \[Lost of the absolute\] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/lost-of-the-absolute-is-in-this-sense-that-i-no-longer-know-what-to/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [ But \[your crime\] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/but-your-crime-will-be-there-one-hundred-times-denied-always-there/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/it-is-not-right-my-fellow-countrymen-you-who-know-very-well-all-the/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/absurd-irreducible-nothing-not-even-a-profound-and-secret-delirium-of/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/for-the-moment-the-jazz-is-playing-there-is-no-melody-just-notes-a/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-think-there-is-an-enormous-diference-between-speaking-and-writing/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-know-i-know-that-i-shall-never-again-meet-anything-or-anybody-who/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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## Other authors on Knows

## More by Jean-Paul Sartre

> [There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/there-is-no-human-nature-since-there-is-no-god-to-conceive-it/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/all-these-creatures-spend-their-time-explaining-realizing-happily/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/she-has-suddenly-emptied-herself-of-me-and-all-other-consciousness-in/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [ \[Stéphane Mallarmé\] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/st-phane-mallarm-theory-of-the-hermetic-is-a-mistake-but-he-can-be/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-can-always-choose-but-i-ought-to-know-that-if-i-do-not-choose-i-am/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/when-the-rich-wage-war-it-s-the-poor-who-die/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/she-smiled-first-i-lost-the-memory-of-her-eyes-then-the-memory-of-her/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [Life is a useless passion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/life-is-a-useless-passion/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-more-one-is-absorbed-in-fighting-evil-the-less-one-is-tempted-to/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/this-is-what-i-thought-for-the-most-banal-even-to-become-an-adventure/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-am-free-there-is-absolutely-no-more-reason-for-living-all-the-ones/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/if-i-am-not-mistaken-if-all-the-signs-which-have-been-amassed-are/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-want-to-leave-go-to-some-place-where-i-will-be-really-in-my-own/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/uncalled-for-aggression-arouses-the-hatred-of-the-civilian-population/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

> [The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/the-best-work-is-not-what-is-most-difficult-for-you-it-is-what-you-do/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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                        "text": "You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.",
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                        "text": "But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.",
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                        "text": "It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.",
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                        "text": "Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.",
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