Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. — 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 have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in… — 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
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To whomever gives a kiss or a blow Render a kiss or blow But to whomever gives when you are unable to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — 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