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
“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
“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
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
“Undoubtedly, on his death bed, at that moment when, ever since Socrates, it has been proper to pronounce certain elevated words, he… — 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
“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
“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
“For the moment they wanted to live with the least expenditure, economize words, gestures, thoughts, float: they had only one day in… — 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
“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
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment… — 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
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
To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never… — 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
“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
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
“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
“At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another? — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well… — 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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