Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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He chooses the most feared, most hated man in order to worship him as a god, feeling sure that he is alone in perceiving the god’s secret virtues.
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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
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I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
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Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.
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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
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But when they have realized that it society rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
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Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.