Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — 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
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is a profound boredom, profound, the profound heart of existence, the very matter I am made of.” — 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
“In my case, I chose writing in place of death, and because I lacked faith.” — 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
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
“But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave… — 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
“If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go… — 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
We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, released, surges over me. I exist.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“what summits would I not reach if my own life made the subject of the melody.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing - not even a memory.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.” — 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
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
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously. — 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
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