“An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there’s quite enough existence as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, othermen going to their jobs.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It’s what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We were a heap of living creatures, irritated, embarrassed at ourselves, we hadn't the slightest reason to be there, none of us,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But everything changes when you tell about life; it's a change no one notices: the proof is that people talk about true… — 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,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are… — 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
![“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But…” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83d/jean-paul-sartre-220_books_if-literature-should-turn-into-pure-prop_2363349.jpg)
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