Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
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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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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
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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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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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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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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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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
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A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate, even more than my innocence.
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man’s reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.