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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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I am myself and I am here.
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Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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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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The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.
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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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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.
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For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
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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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Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.
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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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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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