When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything. — 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
That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world? — 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
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — 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