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So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Lying, Practice, People

If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Life, Lying, Drinking
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 10, sc. 2, 1951.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Lying, Heart, Worms
Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Lying, Political, Politics

I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Sweet, Lying, Thinking
"Being and Nothingness".

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Lying, Mean, Class
"Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Lying, Men, What Matters

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