We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
Jean Paul Sartre
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
man
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
rights man
A man is what he wills himself to be.
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.
trust man
I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
politics man
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
solitude miracles man men
It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! Terrible and divine passion!
rules order
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
men science
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
rights wrongs politics science
Monsieur.. I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
light
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