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Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.
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You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.
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I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.
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You are a tiny little girl, Electra. Other little girls dreamed of being the richest or the most beautiful women of all. And you, fascinated by the horrid destiny of your people, you wished to become the most pained and the most criminal … At your age, children still play with dolls and they play hopscotch. You, poor child, without toys or playmates, you played murder, because it is a game that one can play alone.
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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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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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All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
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We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are —that is the fact.
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That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man's reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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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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The homosexual never thinks of himself when someone is branded in his presence with the name homosexual.... His sexual tastes will doubtless lead him to enter into relationships with this suspect category, but he would like to make use of them without being likened to them. Here, too, the ban that is cast on certain men by society has destroyed all possibility of reciprocity among them. Shame isolates.
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
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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.
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But, if it will help ease your irritated souls, please know, dearly departed, that you have ruined our lives.
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You can see it's the end; Europe is springing leaks everywhere. What then has happened? It simply is that in the past we made history and now it is being made of us. The ratio of forces has been inverted.
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The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
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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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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves absent, that is more proper.
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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
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Born:
June 21, 1905
Died:
April 15, 1980
(aged 74)
Bio:
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
Known for:
No Exit (1947)
Nausea (1938)
The Flies (1944)
Being and Nothingness (1943)
No Exit and Three Other Plays (1948)
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