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- It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to…
- All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he…
- Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us…
- In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines…
- I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw…
- When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends.…
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;…
- All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'…
- [M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he…
- I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into…
- I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight…
- I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
- I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so…
- I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and…
- Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
- Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going…
- There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror.…
- A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
- We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free.…
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