At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden something breaks off sharply. The adventure is over, time resumes its daily routine. I turn; behind me, this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This sun and blue sky were only a snare. This is the hundredth time I've let myself be caught. My memories are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We play the part of heroes because we're cowards, the part of saints because we're wicked: we play the killer's role because… — 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
“they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be… — 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
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that… — 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
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in… — 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
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he… — 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
