Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — 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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