Quotes about Sartre

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In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the — Jean-Paul Sarte
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions
[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what you lik — Robert C. Solomon, No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words — Carole Seymour-Jones, A Dangerous Liaison
Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funer — Jean-Paul Sartre, The Reprieve
We choose our friends on the basis of, among other things, our conception of ourselves. That's not to say that friendshi — Robert C. Solomon, No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't har — Jean-Paul Sartre, The Respectable Prostitute/Lucifer and the Lord/In Camera
He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied wi — Barry N. Malzberg, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolution, is a certain b — Colin Wilson, Strange Powers
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. — Jean-Paul Sartre
My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist t — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism
It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces o — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pur — Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life
I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its paws with the nail — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic — Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on th — Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth. — Annie Cohen-Solal, Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life