04UndatedAt an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
05UndatedThree o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
06UndatedA 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedI had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
08UndatedMan is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
10UndatedSo this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
11UndatedPeople. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the NauseaJean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
13UndatedOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
17UndatedAll I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
18UndatedA human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
19UndatedWell, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.''I still don't understand,' said Lola, shaking her head.'Well, he doesn't care a curse about his apartment: he lives there just as he would live anywhere else, and I've got the feeling that he doesn't care much about his girl. He stays with her because he must sleep with someone. His freedom isn't visible, it's inside him.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
21UndatedBut I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
22UndatedHe raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
23UndatedThe aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
