What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat, the alienation of man, I am astonished that they do not color all our literature. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine… — 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.… — 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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