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Giving Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

16 Giving quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Sartre frames giving as an act of freedom, a choice that defines our essence. His existential tone questions motives while affirming the power of self‑determined generosity. In 16 quotes you’ll encounter a philosophical spin on the everyday act of sharing.

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It is up to you to give life a meaning.

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Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else…

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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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Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the…

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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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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it…

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To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to…

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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,…

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I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but…

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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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For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,…

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The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten…

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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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In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself…

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And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all…

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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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