Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Writing Identity, Essential Training, Life Choices, Writer’s Path, Personal Evolution, Literary Dedication
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“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
Risk Recognition, Life Bound, Objective Form, Existence, Freedom, Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre Risk Recognition, Life Bound, Objective Form, Existence, Freedom, Philosophy“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Dilemma, Self Responsibility, Life Uncertainty, Self Awareness, Life, Identity
Jean-Paul Sartre Existential Dilemma, Self Responsibility, Life Uncertainty, Self Awareness, Life, Identity“I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Language Clarity, Existential Miscommunication, Plain Expression, Language, Clarity, Expression
Jean-Paul Sartre Language Clarity, Existential Miscommunication, Plain Expression, Language, Clarity, Expression“Finally, it is worth mentioning, in the interest of thoroughness, that the defeat exasperated the conflict between generations. For four years the combatants of 1914 reproached those of 1940 for having lost the war, and those of 1940, in reply, accused their elders of having lost the peace.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Generational Conflict, War Defeat, Historical Rivalry, War, Conflict, Generations
Jean-Paul Sartre Generational Conflict, War Defeat, Historical Rivalry, War, Conflict, Generations“I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Self Respect, Foolish Rules, Humiliation, Reflection, Freedom, Integrity
Jean-Paul Sartre Self Respect, Foolish Rules, Humiliation, Reflection, Freedom, Integrity“If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Salvation Rejection, Human Equality, Existential Reflection, Salvation, Identity, Equality
Jean-Paul Sartre Salvation Rejection, Human Equality, Existential Reflection, Salvation, Identity, Equality“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.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Desire Dilemma, Moral Conflict, Soul Corruption, Desire, Doubt, Morality
Jean-Paul Sartre Desire Dilemma, Moral Conflict, Soul Corruption, Desire, Doubt, Morality“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Freedom, Personal Choice, Life Control, Freedom, Complaints, Control
Jean-Paul Sartre Existential Freedom, Personal Choice, Life Control, Freedom, Complaints, Control“You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Shared Suffering, Emotional Connection, Painful Unity, Pain, Suffering, Rhythm
Jean-Paul Sartre Shared Suffering, Emotional Connection, Painful Unity, Pain, Suffering, Rhythm“How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?” Jean-Paul Sartre
Past Retention, Memory Loss, Saving Others, Reflection, History, Responsibility
Jean-Paul Sartre Past Retention, Memory Loss, Saving Others, Reflection, History, Responsibility“Revolutionary man must be a contingent being, unjustifiable but free, entirely immersed in the society that oppresses him, but capable of transcending this society by his effort to change it. Idealism mystifies him in that it binds him by rights and values that are already given; it conceals from him his power to devise roads of his own. But materialism also mystifies him, by depriving him of his freedom. The revolutionary philosophy must be a philosophy of transcendence.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Revolutionary Philosophy, Social Change, Existential Freedom, Revolution, Change, Freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre Revolutionary Philosophy, Social Change, Existential Freedom, Revolution, Change, Freedom“It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Hate’s Spread, Human Hatred, Social Impact, Emotional Reflection, Collective Negativity, Hate Dynamics
Jean-Paul Sartre Hate’s Spread, Human Hatred, Social Impact, Emotional Reflection, Collective Negativity, Hate Dynamics“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Eternal Illusion, Life Meaning, Existential Thought, Life, Mortality, Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre Eternal Illusion, Life Meaning, Existential Thought, Life, Mortality, Philosophy“The sun was clear and diaphanous like white wine. Its light barely touched the moving figures, gave them no shadow, no relief: faces and hands made spots of pale gold.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Luminous Beauty, Existential Imagery, Temporal Light, Sun, Figures, Gold
Jean-Paul Sartre Luminous Beauty, Existential Imagery, Temporal Light, Sun, Figures, Gold“There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Human Nature, Existential Godlessness, Philosophical Reflection, Nature, Godlessness, Reflection
Jean-Paul Sartre Human Nature, Existential Godlessness, Philosophical Reflection, Nature, Godlessness, Reflection“Dostoevsky said, “If God didn’t exist, everything would be possible.” That is the very starting point of existentialism. Indeed, everything is permissible if God does not exist, and as a result man is forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to. He can’t start making excuses for himself.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism Freedom, God Morality, Philosophy Choice, Responsibility, Self
Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Freedom, God Morality, Philosophy Choice, Responsibility, Self“The cards fall on the woollen cloth, spinning. The hands with ringed fingers come and pick them up, scratching the cloth with their nails. The hands make white splotches on the cloth, they look puffed up and dusty. Other cards fall, the hands go and come. What an odd occupation: it doesn’t look like a game or a rite, or a habit. I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Time Existence, Fate, Life, Repetition, Reflection, Memory
Jean-Paul Sartre Time Existence, Fate, Life, Repetition, Reflection, Memory“No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Facing Truth, Courageous Acceptance, Reality Check, Honesty, Truth, Courage
Jean-Paul Sartre Facing Truth, Courageous Acceptance, Reality Check, Honesty, Truth, Courage“Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?” Jean-Paul Sartre
Human Potential, Strength, Endurance, Resources, Self Knowledge, Limitations
Jean-Paul Sartre Human Potential, Strength, Endurance, Resources, Self Knowledge, Limitations“A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Telling Stories, Life Narrative, Identity Reflection, Life, Storytelling, Perspective
Jean-Paul Sartre Telling Stories, Life Narrative, Identity Reflection, Life, Storytelling, Perspective