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Jean Paul Sartre war französischer Romancier, Dramatiker, Philosoph und Publizist. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“They made me take cod liver oil: that is the height of luxury: a medicine to make you hungry while the others, in the street, would have sold themselves for a beefsteak. I saw them passing my window with their signs: “Give me bread.””

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Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Act 3, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

“If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Estelle on Garcin, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 3, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man’s politics, for the living.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

“Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch Der Ekel

Nausea (1938)

“I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 4, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Miscellaneous
Quelle: Quotation #32866 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

“I felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.”

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Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

Electra to her brother Orestes, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“You take souls for vegetables…. The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Heinrich, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

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

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Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

Jupiter to Orestes, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch Saint Genet

(463).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch Der Ekel

Nausea (1938)

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

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Jean Paul Sartre Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Inès to Estelle after she has applied lipstick, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 6, sc. 6
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“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.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness (1943)

“The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch Saint Genet

139
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

As quoted in Marianne Sinclair's !Viva Che!: Contributions in Tribute to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (1968)

“For those who want ‘to change life”, ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.”

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Jean Paul Sartre buch Saint Genet

500
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Geschlossene Gesellschaft

Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)