He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. — 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