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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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.
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Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
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I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
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I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility.
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
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In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.
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I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.
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Perception is naturally surpassed toward action better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an always future hollow, for we are always future to ourselves.
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
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I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
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Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
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