Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes - Page 13

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• You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a
  theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Drawing

  "Viva Che!: Contributions in Tribute to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara". Book by Marianne Sinclair, 1968.

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• I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

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  Children, Choices, Determined

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1952.

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• To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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  Existentialism, Destruction, Appropriate

  "Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Part 3: Being-For-Others, 1943.

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• That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

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  Literature, World, Doe

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• The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

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  Dark, Animal, Catastrophe

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• As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

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  Truth, Opposites, Stories

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

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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 and no better than any.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Rooms, Impossible

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

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• Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

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  Doe, Savages, Lucky

  "A Victory" by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1958.

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• I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

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  Men, Sea, Cities

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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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  Bored, Long, Soul

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• 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 me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.

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  God, Hands, Covering

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• It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

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  Thinking, People, Sick

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fate, Principles, Action

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

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  Sex, Character, Endeavor

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

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  Mistake, People, Together

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

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• The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models.

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  Order, Effort, Obscurity

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• In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

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  Dream, Writing, Analysis

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• Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

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  Tree, Criticism, Together

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• Man's existence precedes his essence

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  Men, Essence, Human Nature

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• Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Ifs

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.

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  Improvement, Admire, Beckett

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• In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.

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  Writing, Eye, Order

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• Existence precedes and rules essence.

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  Philosophical, Essence, Existence

  L'°tre et le n‚ant (Being and Nothingness, 1943) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• Existence is prior to essence.

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  Essence, Existence

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.29, Routledge

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• I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

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  Changed, I Have Changed

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