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It is not a matter of indiffe...

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

It is not right, my fellow-co...

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

That of War and Peace or of A...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Listen to me: a family man is...

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

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I must be without remorse or ...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

In order to make myself recog...

In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

[Andre] Gide can say it to me...

[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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I clung to nothing, in a way ...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

But I must finally realize th...

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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The public, too, has to make ...

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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Ha! to forget. How childish! ...

Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

It's just what people do when...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Then I realized what separate...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

For forty years I was conscri...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

As long as the writer cannot ...

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I am not asking for sensation...

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

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

The real nature of the presen...

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

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

[St?phane Mallarm?] theory of...

[St?phane Mallarm?] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I do not understand! I unders...

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

it was odd, he thought, that ...

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

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