“He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.” — 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
“Love was not something to be felt, not a particular emotion, nor yet a particular shade of feeling, it was much more… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Tu ești pentru mine relația necesară. Toți ceilalți sunt întâmplători.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Even if she loved him with all her heart, it would still be the love of a dead woman.” — 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
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
“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