That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There’s the story of a person who does this, does that, but it isn’t I, I have nothing in common with him.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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