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Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Subjectivity, Humans, Universe

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Believe, Desire, May

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Morning, Fifteen, Next

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Writing, Born

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Happiness, Faith, Talent

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Party, Struggle, Mean
"Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Passion, Men, Useless
'L'Être et le nèant' (1943) pt. 4, ch. 2

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Perception, World, Action
Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands....I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed....He never looked at me again....I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head....I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.

Jean-Paul Sartre
God, Hands, Covering

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Bored, Long, Soul
Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Jobs, Passion, Thinking
Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Scene, Turns
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.164, Open Road Media

All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Book, Men, Mirrors

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

Jean-Paul Sartre
People, Nervous, Consent
1961 Preface to Franz Fanon Les Damne s de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth,1967, translated by Constance Farrington). Tsitsi Dangarembga uses this sentence to supply both epigraph and title of her1988 novel Nervous Conditions.

Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Fall, Men, Cities
"The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes to Electra, Act 2, 1943.

Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.

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

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, Past, Men
Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

Jean-Paul Sartre
World, Appearance, Whole

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Thinking, Bourgeoisie, Speak

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Light, Forgiving, Earth
"The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, 1951.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Past, Luxury
"Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

Jean-Paul Sartre
Justice, Violence, Source
'Qu'est-ce que la littèrature?' in 'Les Temps Modernes' July 1947, p. 106

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Country, Police, Monsters
"Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Men, Horizon, Looks
Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “The Philosophy of Existentialism: Selected Essays”, p.58, Open Road Media

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Dust, Hands, Ideas

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