As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but… — 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
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,… — 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
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
“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