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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean‑Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer and literary critic, known as a key figure in existentialism and 20th‑century French philosophy.

About Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean‑Paul Sartre, full name Jean‑Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, was a French philosopher and writer who worked as a playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer and literary critic. He is remembered as a leading figure in 20th‑century French philosophy and Marxism, and as one of the central thinkers of existentialism.

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“Bivanje je polnost, ki je človek ne more zapustiti.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

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Funny

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I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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Choice

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“what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.”

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Character

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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

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The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

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Anguish

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Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

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Country

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It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

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“Do you regret those days?' 'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.”

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Life

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I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

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I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

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Belief

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Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

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“¿Cómo yo, que no he tenido fuerzas para retener mi propio pasado puedo esperar que salvaré el de otro?”

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Amor

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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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“Everywhere, now, there are objects like this glass of beer on the table there. When I see it, I feel like saying:…

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Wine

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If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are…

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We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's…

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Generosity

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“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table,…

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Children

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At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a…

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Bears

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But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd…

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Change

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For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature…

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Absolutes

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“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never…

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Existentialism

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“INEZ: There...you know the way the catch larks - with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror,my dear, and you can't escape me...There isn't…

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Mirror

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“But everything changes when you tell about life; it's a change no one notices: the proof is that people talk about true…

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Change

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“I slip Anny's letter back into my despatch case: she has done what she could; I cannot reach the woman who took…

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Joy and pain

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“INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.…

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Dreams

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“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,…

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Excuses

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“S pogledom objamem prostor in prevzame me strašen stud. Kaj delam tu? Zakaj sem se spustil v to prerekanje o humanizmu? Zakaj…

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“I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its…

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Existence

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Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it…

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Affair

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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Attitude

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.

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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

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Money

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“A man rarely feels like laughing alone.”

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Comedy

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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

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Another world

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It is always more valuable to report the truth.

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Anti war

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“To exist is to create your own life.”

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