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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
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The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
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It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.
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This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain cracked quality.
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When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.
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This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy we feel that our existence is justified.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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I distrust the incommunicable it is the source of all violence
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Life is nothing until it is lived but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
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Absurd, irreducible nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].
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A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.
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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
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I considered calmly that I was born to write.
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
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At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.
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You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.
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In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.
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The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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