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…
• Introspection is always retrospection
• My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
• It is always more valuable to report the truth.
• The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.
• Man's existence precedes his essence
• To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June
• I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.
• 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…
• Man is condemned to be free
• Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
• Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
• Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
• Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
• What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
• 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…
• ...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
• 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…
• Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
• 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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