The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to… — 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
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all… — 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
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
I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know 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
“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
[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
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“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
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
![“[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that…” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/jean-paul-sartre-220_absolute_lost-of-the-absolute-is-in-this-sense-th_2116221.jpg)
![“But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law…” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1aa/jean-paul-sartre-220_behind-you_but-your-crime-will-be-there-one-hundred_2620706.jpg)