“Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which… — Jean-Paul Sarte 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… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I lean all my weight on the porcelain ledge, I draw my face closer until it touches the mirror. The eyes, nose,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure:… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Sartre, in his memoirs, confessed to much the same experience. "Like Plato, I passed from knowledge to its subject. I found more… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“he is betrayed by the cynical sparkle of her eyes, by her sophisticated look. Real ladies do not know the price of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face ... People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I was there, standing in front of a window whose panes had a definite refraction index. But what feeble barriers! I suppose… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“Question : YOU HAVE DEFINED YOURSELF AS THE RICH MAN'S GURU. DON'T THE OTHER PEOPLE INTEREST YOU? ARE THE RICH PARTICULARLY IN… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
