Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

464 quotes · Philosopher, Writer

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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Courageous

“Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.”

Powerful Silence Commitment

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Courageous

“So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.”

People Lying Practice

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Philosophical

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”

Poor Assassins

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Philosophical

“The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.”

Life Is Absurd

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Lonely

“Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?”

Left

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Melancholic

“The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.”

Animal Dark

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Philosophical

“Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.”

Inspirational Leader

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Grateful

“I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.”

Years Mind Literature

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Melancholic

“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident”

Reason Philosophical Weakness

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Philosophical

“Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.”

Two Wish Class

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Courageous

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

Ifs

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Philosophical

“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.”

Men Cities Sea

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