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Jean-Paul Sartre

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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

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism

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

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Animals

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

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Difficult

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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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I can

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

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Money

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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…

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Three years

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Life is a useless passion.

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Desire

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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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Evil

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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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Adventure

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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…

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Freedom

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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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Life

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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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Aggression

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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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Best work

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“Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.”

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Intelligence

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“Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?” “With pleasure.” I had as much desire to eat with…

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Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him…

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Poet

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You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

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Contemporary

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I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

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Another world

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I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on;…

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Committed

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“That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he…

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Existentialism

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“Everywhere, now, there are objects like this glass of beer on the table there. When I see it, I feel like saying:…

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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

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Cold

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“He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face,…

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Beautiful

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Jean-Paul Sartre by topic

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