Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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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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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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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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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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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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For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.
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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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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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the martyr’s reflex
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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 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 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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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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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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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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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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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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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If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
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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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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.