Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have…
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Introspection is always retrospection
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My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
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It is always more valuable to report the truth.
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.
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Man's existence precedes his essence
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To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
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I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.
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It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to…
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Man is condemned to be free
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Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
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Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
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What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
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Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To…
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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
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If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them…
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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.…
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