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#1

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

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“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#4

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism

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#5

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism

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“Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

tags: action, existentialism, handeln, inspirational, philosophy, reality

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#7

“I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#8

“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

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#9

“Death is a continuation of my life without me...”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#10

“Existence is prior to essence.”
― Sartre Jean-Paul

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#11

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: political-philosophy

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#12

“And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: fear, love

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“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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#14

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

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#15

“It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: honor, men, titles

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#16

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

tags: cynicism, dire

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#17

“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#18

“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#19

“I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

tags: black-butler, manga, quote, yana-toboso

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“So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?”
― Yana Toboso

tags: being-different, black-butler, inspirational, kuroshitsuji

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#21

“If it's your wish, I will follow you everywhere even if your throne crumbles, and your shiny crown turns to rust. Even if the bodies pile up endlessly, above the bottomless pile of corpses. Beside you as you lie softly down I will be until I hear the word "Check mate!"- Sebastian”
― Yana Toboso

tags: kuroshitsuji

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#22

“Something once lost will never return”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

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#23

“The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

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#24

“No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.”
― Yana Toboso

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#25

“You are not wrong. You fought to protect your world. Isn't that good enough? After all, justice in this world is just a bunch of principles made by those with power to suit themselves. No one really thinks of others, you will lose everything if you cannot keep up. Only two kinds of people exist in this world—those who steal and those who are stolen from. So then, today, I just stole your future. That's all.”
― Yana Toboso

tags: dark, justice

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#26

“I was born to end up alone.”
― Yana Toboso

tags: mystery

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#27

“Do you want to run away by dying? Or to live and accept the challenge? - Ciel Phantomhive”
― Yana Toboso

tags: black-butler, kuroshitsuji, mystery, psychological, supernatural

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#28

“We have no need for the past. All we need are the present and the future. - Ciel Phantomhive”
― Yana Toboso

tags: black-butler, book-of-circus, kuroshitsuji, side-story

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#29

“Don't cry: it pathetic. Crying won't change anything. the world is never kind to anyone. -Ciel Phantomhive”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler VII

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#30

“How interesting... humans will drag others down in order to get what they want even in death.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

tags: black-butler, death, human-nature, humanity, kuroshitsuji, life, morality

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