Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes - Page 16

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• The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention
  of cleansing, of catharsis.

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  Done, Trials, Way

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• 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 up; I forget them almost immediately.

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  Shapes, Forget, My Thoughts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

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  People, Feelings, World

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• In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

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  Home, Years, Waiting

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

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  Now And Then, Glamour, Folks

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

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• [Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

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  Despair, Kind, Beckett

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• 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. You are nothing other than your life.

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  Too Late, Lines, Existentialism

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartr, Inès, act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.

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  Purple, Oil, White

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

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• I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

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  Regret, Responsibility, Tears

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• But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

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  Thinking, Crowds, Revolution

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

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  Air, Space, Shining

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• I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.

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  Eye, Ears, Body

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2010). “The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.

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  Book, Writing, Psychology

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• You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

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  Tease, Used, Ifs

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

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• So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

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  Sleep, Waiting, Needs

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

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• I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

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  Garden, White, Streets

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Dream, Blow, World

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel”

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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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  Life, World, Labor

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.39, Routledge

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• What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

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  Space, Sculpture, Cohesion

  "Situations". Braziller, 1965.

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• I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

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  Party, Causes, Communist

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

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• The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

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  Time, Real, Existential

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• We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

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  Men, Individuality, Wish

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• I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

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  Too Much, Optimist

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• From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

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  Dream, Nausea, Morality

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• [Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged
  people. For that reason it no longer interests me.

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  People, Morality, Reason

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