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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean‑Paul Sartre’s words wrestle with freedom, responsibility, and the absurd. His philosophical musings challenge readers to confront the weight of choice in a world without predetermined meaning.

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[Wikipedia] Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and was

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Man must be invented each day

Jean-Paul Sartre

Each day

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“Ni siquiera sufrí; me sentía vacío.”

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Amor

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Life is a useless passion.

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Desire

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This then is the age of reason.

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Age

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Nothingness haunts Being.

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Existentialism

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Hell is other people at breakfast.

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Breakfast

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Hell is for other people.

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Hell

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Hell is other people.

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Hell

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“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.”

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Death

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An individual chooses and makes himself.

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Chooses

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“The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom”

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Free man

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“Seuls les actes décident de ce qu'on a voulu.”

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Madame

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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

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Giving

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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

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Consequence

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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

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Crime

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Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

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Funny

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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe…

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Believe

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“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.”

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Affection

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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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Giving

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This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

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Certain

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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

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Defined

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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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Achieve

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“If God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour.”

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Exist

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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Exercise

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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…

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Emptied Consciousness

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“The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has…

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Existentialism

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“But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the…

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Ignorance

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“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these…

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Calm

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“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in…

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Face

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A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy…

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Citizens

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“They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time,…

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Absurdism

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“I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I…

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Regret

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“The rain has stopped, the air is mild, the sky slowly rolls up fine black images : it is more than enough…

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Perfect moment

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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever…

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Breaths

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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,…

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Afraid

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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also…

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Able

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“And the concert halls overflow with humiliated, outraged people who close their eyes and try to turn their pale faces into receiving…

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Beauty

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“Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles. Hugo: Men? Why should I love them? Do they love me? Höderer:…

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Change the world

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“THE HOLE The hole is something which longs to be filled. The small child is drawn as if by magic to holes.…

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Children

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It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all…

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Being true

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