Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?Hugo: No.Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.
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such mad confidence within despair.
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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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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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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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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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Your crystal? That’s silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the window. The crystal is shattered on earth, and I do not care. I am no longer anything but a skin, and my skin does not belong to you.
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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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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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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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…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.
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Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.
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Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.
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You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.
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esse est percipi, and he recognizes himself as being only insofar as he is perceived.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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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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In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
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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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For Genet, Beauty will be the offensive weapon that will enable him to beat the just on their own ground: that of value.
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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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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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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.