Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved’s orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.
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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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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.
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What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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Alors, c’est ça l’enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru... vous vous rappelez: le soufre, le bûcher, le gril... ah! Quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer, c'est les autres.
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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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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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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 martyr’s reflex
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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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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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.
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Now I am weary and I can no longer tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.
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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
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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?