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Jean Paul Sartre Inspirational Quotes (278)

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Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !
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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.
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What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
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What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
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I wrote in Les Mots that I have often thought against myself. That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.
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Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better to have them, what iniquity!
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An individual chooses and makes himself.
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the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
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I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.
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Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.
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Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
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it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?
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Introspection is always retrospection
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
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If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
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