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Adventure Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

11 Adventure quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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If you’re curious how a philosopher who wrestled with freedom and responsibility sees the call of adventure, this short set offers a clear glimpse. The eleven selections strip away the academic veneer, letting Sartre’s raw voice speak directly about risk, choice, and the unknown. It’s a concise, yet potent, window into his restless mind.

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“But an adventure never returns nor is prolonged.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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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Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

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What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

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This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to…

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“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that…

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“All of a sudden something breaks off sharply. The adventure is over, time resumes its daily routine. I turn; behind me, this…

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“The idea is still there, unnameable. It waits, peacefully. Now it seems to say: “Yes? Is that what you wanted? Well, that’s…

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But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this…

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“Something is beginning in order to end: adventure does not let itself be drawn out; it only makes sense when dead. I…

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“This feeling of adventure definitely does not come from events: I have proved it. It's rather the way in which the moments…

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”

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“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet…

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[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

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

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“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as…

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Life is a useless passion.

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The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

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This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…

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“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine…

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“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then…

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“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .…

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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

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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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