Jean-Paul Sartre: Citations en anglais

Jean-Paul Sartre était philosophe, dramaturge, romancier, nouvelliste et essayiste français. Citations en anglais.
Jean-Paul Sartre: 441 citations59 J'aime

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

No Exit (1944)
Variante: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Source: Nausea

“God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 10, sc. 4
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

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

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Âge de raison

L'âge de raison (The Age of Reason) (1945)

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Source: No Exit

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Les Mots

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Source: Nausea

“Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Source: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 58

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

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Jean Paul Sartre