Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 4

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
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. View quote
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. View quote
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We will not go to Heaven, Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God. View quote
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. View quote
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Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets. View quote
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar. View quote
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen. View quote
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I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh! View quote
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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. View quote
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. View quote
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea. View quote
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. View quote
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Nothingness haunts being. View quote
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A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. View quote
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I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail. View quote
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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! View quote
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being. View quote
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. View quote
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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey. View quote
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. View quote
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You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them. View quote
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It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell. View quote
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