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
Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else… — 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
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I… — 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
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
“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
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. — 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
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“all of us abandon ourselves to existence, because we were among ourselves, only among ourselves, it has taken us unawares, in the… — 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
“There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid… — 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
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