Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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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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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission
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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 felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
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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 tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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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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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 exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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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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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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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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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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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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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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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.