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Biography - Jean-Paul Sartre:

French philosopher, playwright and novelist.
Born: 1905 - Died: 1980
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
La fonction d’un écrivain est d’appeler un chat un chat. Si les mots sont malades, c’est à nous de les guérir.




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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.




Quotes for: word


Quotes

Quotes for: word


The word flies and cannot be recalled.





One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.






Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.











Quotes for: writing


Quotes

Quotes for: writing


Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.





A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.





It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.





For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.





I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.











Quotes

Quotes for: writer


Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.





Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.





It is a pity that one cannot see the learned entrails of authors so as to discover what they have eaten.





The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.







Quotes

Jean-Paul Sartre also said...


when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.





Each man must invent his own path.





Existence precedes essence.





I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.





The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.





I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.












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