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A writer must refuse to allow...

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I think that is the big dange...

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I think there is an enormous ...

I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

You take souls for vegetables...

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

So much torture, bloodshed, d...

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

There are photographers who p...

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Happiness has to be installed...

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

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

Abjection is a methodological...

Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Many young people today do no...

Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

In any case, if you ever leav...

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Love or hatred calls for self...

Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

A pale reflection of myself w...

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Never have I thought that I w...

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

One could only damage oneself...

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

Good digestions, the gray mon...

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I believe, I desire, that soc...

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

My eyes feel all soft, all so...

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

For common minds have an ugly...

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

I do not give a damn about th...

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Jean-Paul Sartre 479 quotes

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