“I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out. — 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
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“One thus arrives at a curious conception of thought. Thought has no real, concrete existence, accessible to immediate consciousness, since the datum of introspection is the image. It has no universality in act, because, if it were so, one should be able to grasp it directly. But it is a potential universality that one derives from the fact that a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“There exist concretely alarm clocks, signboards, tax forms, policemen, so many guard rails against anguish. But as soon as the enterprise is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: the hatred, the disgust of existing, there are as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a… — 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. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a… — 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 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 I am terrified. It isn't that my life is rich, or weighty or precious. But I'm afraid of what will be born and take possession of me—and drag me—where? Shall I have to go off again,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
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