Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Eh bien, continuons...
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But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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On meurt toujours trop tôt - ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée : le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.
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It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.
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To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.
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Moral solipsism.
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised if he didn’t have a few pounds left.
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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.
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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.
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If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
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If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
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L'existence précède et commande l'essence.
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À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coupRendez un baiser ou un coupMais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendreOffrez toute la haine de votre coeurCar vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
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In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
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Your church is a whore: she sells her favors to the rich.