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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world you want to blow it up.
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I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
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Before you come alive, life is nothing it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
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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.
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The absurd man will not commit suicide he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
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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.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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There are two kinds of existentialist first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.
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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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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.
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