Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster
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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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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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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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People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
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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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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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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 have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.