Heart Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

15 Heart quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

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Sartre treats the heart as a site of freedom and responsibility. In 15 terse observations he challenges readers to own their choices, a sharp companion for those wrestling with authenticity.

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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

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“Nothingness carries being in its heart.”

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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

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“Even if she loved him with all her heart, it would still be the love of a dead woman.”

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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in…

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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to…

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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the…

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There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you…

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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in…

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“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily…

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“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed…

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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their…

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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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Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but…

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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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