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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources? — 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

How nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. — 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

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Hell is for other people. — 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

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely. — 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

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

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. — Jean-Paul Sartre

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. — Jean-Paul Sartre

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing. — Jean-Paul Sartre

know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence - and there's quite enough existence as it is. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre famously said that "hell is other people," which is true enough, but truer still is hell is other people's boyfriends — Cheryl Strayed

Man's existence precedes his essence — Jean-Paul Sartre

Life gave me everything I asked
If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem! — Jean-Paul Sartre

as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What — Eula Biss

It's strange. I felt less lonely when I didn't know you. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Human feeling. That's beyond my range. I'm rotten to the core. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency ... — Jean-Paul Sartre

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love. — 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

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's. — 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

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