Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes - Page 11

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• Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Excuse, Remedy

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

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• The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Night, Light

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Existentialism, Human Nature, There Is No God

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.164, Open Road Media

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• What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hero, Writing, Neurosis

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• I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Play, Enough, Priests

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• It is always more valuable to report the truth.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Peace, War, Valuable

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• The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dream, Reality, Two

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• For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dog, Moving, Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Farewell, Pride, Men

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• Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Trust, Philosophical, Intelligent

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 2, sc. 3, en.wikiquote.org. 1951.

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• It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Crush, Wall, Men

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, sc. 4, 1951.

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• He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Becoming, Ends, Contingency

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Impress, Involved

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.171, Open Road Media

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Desire, Quality

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• What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Men, Color

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• The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Support, Individuality, Depth

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• If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Political, Politics

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• You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Vegetables, Soul, Carrots

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

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  Monday, Hero, Adventure

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Portraits, Myth

  "What Is Literature?: And Other Essays".

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• I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Son, Blood, Giving

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1951.

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• And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

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  Men, Giving, Desire

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• I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Luxury, Evil

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• I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Want, Said, Dies

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• Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Way, Existentialism, Wonder

  "No Exit". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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