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

“Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Act 1
The Flies (1943)

“I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

439
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“Jupiter: I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?
Aegisteus: Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

Source: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952) (67)

“We are in hell and I will have my turn!”

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Jean Paul Sartre Huis clos

Inès warns Garcin and Estelle not to make love in her presence, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes, Act 3
The Flies (1943)

“Since he is unable to be the beloved, he will become the lover.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Original: (90).

“But since he has decided to have the impossibility of living, every misfortune is an opportunity which lays this importance of living before his eyes and obliges him to decide, once again, to die.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

(158).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.”

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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)

“It was a constraint; he makes of it his mission”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Original: (61).

“It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“…and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there’s nothing offensive about a naked behind if it’s everybody’s; each person will be mirrored in it.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Saint Genet, comédien et martyr

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

“The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre L'Être et le Néant

Being and Nothingness (1943)

“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Le Diable et le Bon Dieu

Act 5, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre La Nausée

Nausea (1938)

“The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.”

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Jean Paul Sartre livre Critique of Dialectical Reason

Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

“Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Source: Les Temps modernes (1961), p. 184

“Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Les Mouches

Orestes to Electra, Act 2
The Flies (1943)