"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.“
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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