Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 13

For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one does not love increasingly everyday. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/. View quote
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us. View quote
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He wanted to assume his entire condition, to carry the world on his shoulders and to become, in defiance of all, what all have made of him. View quote
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...the prisoner's dreams is the guard's spirituality. View quote
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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. View quote
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...the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities. View quote
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...and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there's nothing offensive about a naked behind if it's everybody's; each person will be mirrored in it. View quote
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the martyr's reflex. View quote
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In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bourgeoisie of colonized subjects in a system of divide and rule; elsewhere, it has killed two birds with one stone: the colony is both settlement and exploitation. View quote
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I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. View quote
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward. View quote
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. View quote
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences. View quote
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Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. View quote
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Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. View quote
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. View quote
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is-other people! View quote
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. View quote
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Reflection poisons desire. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us. View quote
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. View quote
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We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. View quote
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I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. View quote
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