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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
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Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
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Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
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[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Man is what he wills himself to be.
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A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
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The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.
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She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift . . . that's nausea.
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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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What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
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Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred himself, his house, his land, his memories.
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God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. Perhaps he was only a dream...God is dead.
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