I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they… — 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
I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — 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