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Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Kings, Stars, Flower
Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Temptation, Bears, Impatience

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love Is, Overcoming, Spite
Jean-Paul Sartre (1992). “Notebooks for an Ethics”, p.477, University of Chicago Press

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Solitude, Littles, Purity
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Literature, Neurosis, Action

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Adventure, Order, Achieve

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Creating, Guilt

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Art, Philosophy, Responsibility

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Love You, Important, Answers
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Lee Fahnestock, Norman Macafee (2002). “Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, 1926-1939”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

Jean-Paul Sartre
God, Order, Speak

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Pride, Law, Punishment
"Les Mouches (The Flies)". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 1), June 3, 1943.

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Adventure, Men, People
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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
War, Ideas, Chinese

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Neurosis, Natural, Characteristics

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
Music, Hands, Giving

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Plight, Modern

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical, Doe, Cry
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Artist, Color, Quality
Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.312, Open Road Media

There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Ideas, Salvation, Absolutes

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Inspirational, Drunk, Leader
Jean-Paul Sartre, Benny Lévy (2007). “Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews”, p.129, University of Chicago Press

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Use, Wanted, Know How
"The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories".

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Excuse, Remedy
Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey

Jean-Paul Sartre
Missing, Honey, Miss Me
Jean-Paul Sartre (2014). “Bulantı”, p.164, Can Yayınları

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical, Weakness, Reason

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Fire, People, Farce
"No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Garcin, act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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