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My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
An individual chooses and makes himself.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
This then is the age of reason.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Man must be invented each day
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Acting is happy agony.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea — Jean-Paul Sartre
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The true sea is cold and black, full of animals...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is for other people.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
your judgement judges you and defines you
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You take souls for vegetables ... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
When you're alone, you're in bad compny
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right
— Jean-Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
She is dearer to me than life. But her suffering comes from within, and only she can rid herself of it. For she is free.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence is prior to essence.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing ...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
— Thom Gunn
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing that exists can be comic; it was like a floating analogy, almost entirely elusive, with certain aspects of vaudeville.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Tuesday:
Nothing. Existed. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing. Existed. — Jean-Paul Sartre
A good hanging now and then
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. — Jean-Paul Sartre
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour. — Jean-Paul Sartre
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You believe that you believe, but you don't believe.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Anyhow, isn't it better to think we've got here by
mistake? — Jean-Paul Sartre
mistake? — Jean-Paul Sartre
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
one cannot hate a man more than one can love him." The
— Jean-Paul Sartre
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions
— Jean-Paul Sartre
This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
We have so much difficulty imagining nothingness.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
they think about Tomorrow, that is to say, simply, a new today;
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I go out. Why? Well,because I have no reason not to go out either
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I do not think therefore I am a moustache
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?"
"Yes, naturally. — Jean-Paul Sartre
"Yes, naturally. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I don't know. Everything. Living. Smoking.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Black, like the circle, did not exist.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
to do something is to create existence
— Jean-Paul Sartre