Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total...… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — 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
A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all… — 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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