This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted.… — 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
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. — 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