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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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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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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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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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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She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the Communist Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man’s politics, for the living.
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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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The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/
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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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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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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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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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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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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
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We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.