Top 100 Jean Paul Quotes

#1. People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Harvey Weinstein

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#2. Idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Eula Biss

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#3. I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Thom Gunn

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#4. Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Walter Lippmann

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#5. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

Adam Alter

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#6. Hell is other people," said Jean-Paul Sartre. "Hell is other real people,' is what he should have said.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#7. Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

Evgeny Morozov

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#8. When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

Jerry Hall

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#9. Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Alan Alda

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#10. Some 1,300 years later, the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre metaphorically spat on the notion of communal bliss by declaring, "Hell is other people.

Eric Weiner

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#11. I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

Carole Seymour-Jones

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#12. The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

Simon Baker

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#13. I lived on a farm in Illinois, and we didn't have a lot of money. But I lived vicariously through magazines. I was obsessed with Jean Paul Gaultier. I still have the scrapbooks, and I've kept all my designs and sketches.

Melissa McCarthy

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#14. As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women?

Richard Yates

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#15. Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends

Cheryl Strayed

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#16. Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#17. as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What

Eula Biss

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#18. I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too 'Jean-Paul Sartre' and intellectual in my head. And it's like a Kafka novel in there, things get nuts. Then I have to remind myself to get out and I will go and play ice hockey with my friends.

Josh Peck

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#19. This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.)

Christopher Panza

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#20. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Lewis Hyde

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#21. I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

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#22. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants.

Plato

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#23. For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

Colleen Atwood

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#24. To be is to do - Socrates.
To do is to be - Jean-Paul Satre.
Do be do be do -Frank Sinatra.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#25. It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#26. Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote, "Evil is not an appearance," adding that "knowing its causes does not dispel it." Sartre

Sue Klebold

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#27. One can be very fertile without having to work too much. Three hours in the morning. Three hours in the evening. This is my only rule. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Mason Currey

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#28. I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

ASAP Ferg

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#29. Sure can. But you know a white man got to go through sumpin' 'fore he could call a black man friend. White man got to see the shit an' smell it too before he could really know a black friend." Jean-Paul

Walter Mosley

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#30. Words are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#31. You are -- your life, and nothing else.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#32. Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#33. So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#34. You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Jean Paul

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#35. Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#36. To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#37. Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#38. Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

Jean Helion

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#39. Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#40. Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#41. At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#42. Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

Jean Paul

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#43. In a major matter no details are small.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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#44. On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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#45. The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#46. I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can't imagine any more of them.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#47. Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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#48. I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#49. Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon
toward himself to recover his inner being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#50. Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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#51. 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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#52. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Jean Paul

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#53. Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#54. The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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#55. People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#56. What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

Jean Paul

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#57. I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#58. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Jean Paul

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#59. I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#60. And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#61. I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#62. Karsky: I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing?
Hugo: No.
Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death.
Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#63. To conform is to give in.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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#64. Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#65. A man," answered Vult, "must have some chosen one, to whom, when he has involved all others in vapor and fog, he can open his breastplate, and the breast itself, and say, look in!

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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#66. Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#68. I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#69. The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#70. There is no reality exception in action.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#71. If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#72. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Jean Paul

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#73. The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#74. You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself - in my mind. Painfully conscious.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#75. My eccentricity became direction.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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#76. There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#77. It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#78. Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#79. Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.

Jean-Paul Aron

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#80. When it is dark, the objects and I will come out of limbo

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#81. I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#82. It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#83. Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.

Jean-Christophe Valtat

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#84. One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#85. Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#86. We have so much difficulty imagining nothingness.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#87. Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#88. I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#89. In love, one and one are one.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#90. No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#91. I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#92. So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#93. Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

Jean Paul

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#94. I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . . . But my place is nowhere; I am unwanted, de trop. The

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#95. We do not judge the people we love.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#96. to do something is to create existence

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#97. I scraped my heel against this black claw: I wanted to peel off some of the bark. For no reason at all, out of defiance, to make the bare pink appear absurd on the tanned leather: to play with the absurdity of the world. But, when I drew my heel back, I saw that the bark was still black.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#98. All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#99. We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention ... We can only love on this earth and against God.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#100. You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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