The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre More Quotes From Jean-Paul Sartre Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. Jean-Paul Sartre nausea unbearable alive For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously. Jean-Paul Sartre dog men moving Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Jean-Paul Sartre speak god order I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. Jean-Paul Sartre escaping nature eye Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population. Jean-Paul Sartre hatred war peace I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954]. Jean-Paul Sartre another-world world On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet. Jean-Paul Sartre morning jobs men Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death. Jean-Paul Sartre achieve adventure order Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. Jean-Paul Sartre differences different men 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 universe humans I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied. Jean-Paul Sartre desire may believe Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources? Jean-Paul Sartre philosophical resources men 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 no-love deeds I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility. Jean-Paul Sartre responsible responsibility He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. Jean-Paul Sartre contingency becoming ends 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 fifteen next morning I considered calmly that I was born to write. Jean-Paul Sartre born writing Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. Jean-Paul Sartre running-away running men One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Jean-Paul Sartre stupidity choices enough The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. Jean-Paul Sartre jewels forget men
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