With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. — 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
“could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You have to aspire to everything to have hopes of doing something.” — 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