Sartre Quotes

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.' Drew Gilpin Faust

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. Gore Vidal

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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. Stokely Carmichael

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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. Alexei Sayle

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A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre. Craig Ferguson

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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. Tahar Ben Jelloun

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When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me. Mario Vargas Llosa

Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought. Mario Vargas Llosa

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. Thom Gunn

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