The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Aegistheus, the kings have another secret… Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you… — 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
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]. — 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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