“I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to refresh my memory: I need to feel all the tenderness that Anny inspires;… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I was there, standing in front of a window whose panes had a definite refraction index. But what feeble barriers! I suppose… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure:… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“he is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. Real ladies do not know the price of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I lean all my weight on the porcelain ledge, I draw my face closer until it touches the mirror. The eyes, nose,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“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… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
