Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

إن هؤلاء الشباب يُدهشونني: فهم يروون، إذ يحتسون قهوتهم، قصصا واضحة ومحتملة الوقوع. وإذا سُئلوا عما فعلوا البارحة، لا يضطربون بل إنهم يُجيبونك بكلمتين. لو كنت مكانهم، لتلعثمت. ومن الحق أن ليس ثمّة بعد من يهتم بكيفيّة أستعمالي لوقتي. إن من يعش وحيدا، لا يعرف حتى معنى أن يروي. فإحتمال وقوع الأحداث يختفي في الوقت نفسه الذي يختفي فيه الأصدقاء».

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«وأرى في الجدار ثُقبا أبيض، إنهُ المرآة. إنهُ فخ، وأنا أعلم أني سأتداعى لأسقط فيه. وقد حدث. لقد بدا لي الشيء الرمادي في المرآة، فأقترب لأنظر إليه، فيستحيل عليَّ حينها أن أغادر.

إنهُ إنعكاس وجهي. غالبا ما أبقى لأتأمله في هذه النهارات الضائعة، وأنا لا أفهم شيئا منه.. هذا الوجه. إن لوجهِ الآخرين معنى، أمّا وجهي.. فلا. بل أنا لا أستطيع أن أقرر هل هو جميلٌ أم قبيح. أعتقد أنهُ قبيح.. لأنهم قالوا لي ذلك. ذلك لا يثير إستغرابي، بل يصدمني في الحقيقة؛ أن يعزوا لهُ صفات من هذا النوع، كما لو كانوا يصفون بالجمال أو القبح، قطعة أرضٍ أو كتلة من صخر».

His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved's orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.

Pour que l'événement le plus banal devienne une aventure, il faut et il suffit qu'on se mette à le raconter.

Revoluţionarul este individul care doreşte să schimbe lumea şi o depăşeşte în sensul viitorului către o ordine a valorilor pe care o inventează.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Но теперь я знал: всё на свете является только тем, чем оно кажется, а ЗА НИМ… ничего.

Nothingness haunts being.

If I remember correctly, they call that the irreversibility of time. The feeling of adventure would simply be that of the irreversibility of time. But why don't we always have it? Is it that time is not always irreversible? There are moments when you have the impression that you can do what you want, go forward or backward, that it has no importance; and then other times when you might say that the links have been tightened and, in that case, it's not a question of missing your turn because you could never start again.

والحق أن قتل معنويات أمة لا يتأتى أولا بتحطيم معنوياتها وإنما يكون بإنحطاط أخلاقها

Man can will nothing 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.

INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.

GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.

INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.