“Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Heinrich: “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
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“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“They are in bad faith–they are afraid–and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves…. I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Words are loaded pistols.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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