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“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

Jean Paul Sartre

No Exit (1944)
Variant: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“We are our choices.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Age of Reason

Source: The Age of Reason

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit

“In love, one and one are one.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Words are loaded pistols.”

Jean Paul Sartre

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

Jean Paul Sartre book The Words

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit

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

Jean Paul Sartre

“Hell is—other people!”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Variant: Hell is others.
Source: No Exit

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness (1943)

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

Jean Paul Sartre

Variant: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

“When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Source: Le diable et le bon dieu