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Up Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.
- It is up to you to give life a meaning.
- Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself
- I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw…
- Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch…
- One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up.…
- Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you…
- He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;…
- Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed…
- I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart –…
- What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only…
- I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and…
- Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
- What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and…
- We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to…
- One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up.…
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