Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Regretful

“The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.”

World Dream Blow

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Inspired

“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.”

Years Home Waiting

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Thoughtful

“Introspection is always retrospection”

Human Nature Introspection

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Angry

“Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.”

War Peace

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Spiritual

“I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.”

Soul Desire Existentialism

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Adventurous

“Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.”

Order Adventure Achieve

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Creative

“Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.”

Giving Ideas

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Spiritual

“You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.”

House Son

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Optimistic

“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”

Responsibility Might Existentialism

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Lonely

“As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.”

Mean Heart Flames

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Courageous

“The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.”

Hero Coward

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Philosophical

“One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.”

Ideas Doe

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