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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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Existence is an imperfection.
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The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.
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It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
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My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.
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Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
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When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere I am unwanted.
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.
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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
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