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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

Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the rest of his days. — Jenny Offill

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

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The true sea is cold and black, full of animals... — Jean-Paul Sartre

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations. — 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

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — 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

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

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

Hell is for other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything. — Jean-Paul Sartre

...I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity... — 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

The existentialist says at once that man is 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

Existence is prior to essence. — 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 admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. — Jean-Paul Sartre

In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are. — Keshni Kashyap

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

Sartre turns love into a 'battle between two hypnotists in a closed room'. — Iris Murdoch

Just the opposite for me, all is drowned in poetic impression; I am ready for all concessions. Suddenly — 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

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

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine. — Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. — Jean-Paul Sartre

While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal. — Eugenie Brinkema

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are — Van Morrison

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

A good hanging now and then
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

Anyhow, isn't it better to think we've got here by
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

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. — 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

If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself. — 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

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

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. — Jean-Paul Sartre