I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“THE HOLE The hole is something which longs to be filled. The small child is drawn as if by magic to holes.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Or a mother might look at her child's cheek and ask him: "What's that, a pimple?" and see the flesh puff out… — 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 possible and then, finally lost that three years ago. Just now, brusquely, as I was taking the letter from the landlady's hands, it came back to me; I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to… — 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 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. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a… — 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 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 I am terrified. It isn't that my life is rich, or weighty or precious. But I'm afraid of what will be born and take possession of me—and drag me—where? Shall I have to go off again,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share