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There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Deeds, No Love
Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.37, Routledge

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Order, Trying, Tails
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Mouths, Hell, No Exit
"No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Children, Choices, Determined
"Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1952.

To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to return Offer all the hatred in your heart For you were slaves and he enslaves you

Jean-Paul Sartre
Heart, Kissing, Blow

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Sheep, Kingdoms
"The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Soul, Liberty
"The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 2, 1943.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Choices, Path
"The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1943.

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Jupiter, Path
"The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes. act 3, 1943.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Luck, May

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Reality, Choices, Fundamentals
Jean-Paul Sartre (1985). “Existentialism and Human Emotions”, Citadel Press

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Hate, Generations, Dry
"The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 2, 1943.

Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].

Jean-Paul Sartre
Nature, Roots, Profound

The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the most radical and intransigent manner. This is what Alain Badiou has just done in Almagestes, where he puts language on trial with an intention of cleansing, of catharsis.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Done, Trials, Way

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Now And Then, Glamour, Folks
Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Judging, Secret
"The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 1, 1943.

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Home, Years, Waiting
Jean-Paul Sartre (1969). “The Wall (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre
People, Feelings, World

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Shapes, Forget, My Thoughts
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Despair, Kind, Beckett

So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t it? Wait a minute, there’s a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it’s life without a break.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Sleep, Waiting, Needs
Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Eye, Ears, Body
Jean-Paul Sartre (2010). “The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Space, Sculpture, Cohesion
"Situations". Braziller, 1965.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Individuality, Wish

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Garden, White, Streets
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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