Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 10

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing. View quote
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it. View quote
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In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject. View quote
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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. View quote
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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking. View quote
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Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover. View quote
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But since he has decided to have the impossibility of living, every misfortune is an opportunity which lays this importance of living before his eyes and obliges him to decide, once again, to die. View quote
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It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission. View quote
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth. View quote
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This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: "Give me bread.”. View quote
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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. View quote
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak. View quote
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I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass. View quote
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For those who want ‘to change life”, ‘to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance. View quote
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You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do. View quote
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Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates. View quote
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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. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
As for us, my little friend, we entered [the Communist Party] because we were tired of dying of hunger. View quote
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such mad confidence within despair. View quote
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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. View quote
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He is dead, and my hatred has died with him. View quote
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