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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.
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She believed in nothing only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
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Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
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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.
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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!
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The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.
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Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
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I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.
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Man's existence precedes his essence
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
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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.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
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Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.
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I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.
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Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.
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