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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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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.
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I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
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The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
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We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.
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Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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.
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