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

“Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Hugo, Act 4, sc. 6
Dirty Hands (1948)

“Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Act 3
The Flies (1943)

“Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Characterizations of Existentialism (1944)

“They are in bad faith — they are afraid — and fear, bad faith have an aroma that the gods find delicious. Yes, the gods like that, the pitiful souls.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Act 1
The Flies (1943)

“Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Critique of Dialectical Reason

Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

“As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. … I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Diary entry of Friday 3:00pm (9 February?)
Nausea (1938)

“I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Diary entry of Friday (2 February), concerning a card game
Nausea (1938)

“Your crystal? That’s silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the window. The crystal is shattered on earth, and I do not care. I am no longer anything but a skin, and my skin does not belong to you.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Estelle to Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.
Act 10, sc. 4
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“As for us, my little friend, we entered [the Communist Party] because we were tired of dying of hunger.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Act 3, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)

“Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Act 1, sc. 5
Variant translation: Among murderers. We are in hell, my dear, there is never a mistake and people are not damned for nothing.
No Exit (1944)

“such mad confidence within despair.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Original: (60).

“In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mains sales

Jessica to her husband Hugo, Act 3, sc. 5
Dirty Hands (1948)

“The past is the luxury of proprietors.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Nausea (1938)

“It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Being and Nothingness (1943)

“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves…. I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in my hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Nausea (1938)

“Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 11, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never use it for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.”

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Hoederer to Hugo, Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)

“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think … and I can't prevent myself from thinking.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
Lundi ("Monday")
Nausea (1938)

“But when they have realized that it [society] rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

(65-6).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)