The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer;… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to… — 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
“Perhaps it’s inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is. That would be terrible,’… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“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
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes)… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth,… — 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
“It looked like a colour, but also... like a bruise or a secretion, like an oozing-and something else, an odour, for example,… — 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 possible and then, finally lost that three years ago. Just now, brusquely, as I was taking the letter from the landlady's hands, it came back to me; I thought I saw Anny smiling. I try to… — 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 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