Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is… — 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
At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist. — 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
“The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Where shall I keep mine? You don’t put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“They are young and well built, they have another thirty years ahead of them. So they don't hurry, they take their time,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The rain has stopped, the air is mild, the sky slowly rolls up fine black images : it is more than enough… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I'm going to leave, I'm going to take my train. But behind the existence which falls from one present to the other,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I live in the past. I take everything that has happened to me and arrange it. From a distance like that, it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I see the future. It is there, poised over the street, hardly more dim than the present. What advantage will accrue from… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a… — 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
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
“We play the part of heroes because we're cowards, the part of saints because we're wicked: we play the killer's role because… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden something breaks off sharply. The adventure is over, time resumes its daily routine. I turn; behind me, this… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment,… — 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
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