Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are… — 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
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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
So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t… — 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
“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