“I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“One thus arrives at a curious conception of thought. Thought has no real, concrete existence, accessible to immediate consciousness, since the datum… — 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 don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There exist concretely alarm clocks, signboards, tax forms, policemen, so many guard rails against anguish. But as soon as the enterprise is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a… — 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
