For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself.… — 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
I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was… — 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