Jean-Paul Sartre — Philosophical Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“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.”

Light Fall Night

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

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

Stories Truth Opposites

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Philosophical

“I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.”

Thinking May Confession

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“I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.”

Asking Minutes Revelations

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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.”

Dream Morality Nausea

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“[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.”

Mistake Difficult Theory

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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.”

Order Effort Obscurity

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“That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.”

War Should Lasts

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Philosophical

“[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.”

People Reason Morality

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Philosophical

“For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.”

Years Literature Gone

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Philosophical

“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.”

Men Wish Individuality

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“To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.”

Events Responsible Being Responsible

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