Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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They are in bad faith - they are afraid - and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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the martyr’s reflex
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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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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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I came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects, we are bound by blood, and I deserve to be your king. Your sins and your remorse, your mighty anguish, I take all upon myself. Fear your dead no more, they are my dead.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Catherine: Why commit Evil?Goetz: Because Good has already been done.Catherine: Who has done it?Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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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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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!
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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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I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
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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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I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
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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 real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
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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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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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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.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.