Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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What do you want to do with the Communist Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.
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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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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Jupiter: I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?Aegisteus: Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
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He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
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It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is lucky, he will only die once. As for me, for ten days I have been killing him at every minute.
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Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life.
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The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.
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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.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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...man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.