Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute. Jean-Paul Sartre absolutes salvation ideas In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing. Jean-Paul Sartre analysis dream writing I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement. Jean-Paul Sartre beckett admire improvement For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged. Jean-Paul Sartre literature gone years It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves. Jean-Paul Sartre sick people thinking In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. Jean-Paul Sartre guinea discomfort my-own I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee. Jean-Paul Sartre that-moment honest moments Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed. Jean-Paul Sartre doe country thinking I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. Jean-Paul Sartre bourgeoisie speak thinking I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists. Jean-Paul Sartre guinea realizing wish You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them. Jean-Paul Sartre contemporary writing trying [Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. Jean-Paul Sartre beckett despair kind The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not. Jean-Paul Sartre literature matter littles That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work Jean-Paul Sartre lasts should war I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been Jean-Paul Sartre confession may thinking This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. Jean-Paul Sartre merit tasks should As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise. Jean-Paul Sartre writing men two What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality. Jean-Paul Sartre i-have-changed changed reality In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation? Jean-Paul Sartre leader europe country 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 Jean-Paul Sartre done trials way
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