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Doe Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

16 Doe quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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If you’re curious about how Sartre might frame the idea of a 'Doe', these sixteen snippets give you a quick, thoughtful entry point. The selections capture his characteristic blend of existential nuance and sharp observation, making it a handy stop for anyone looking for a focused taste of his voice on this theme.

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One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

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When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

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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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That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

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She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it…

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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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Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

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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…

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Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in…

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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky…

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He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize…

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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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“man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into…

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We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely…

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Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that…

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Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know…

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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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