Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
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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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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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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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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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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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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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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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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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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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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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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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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
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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 was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
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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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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
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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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I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.