01c. 1942 ADI haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter of words; I am beginning to understand. There is something I longed for more than all the rest - without realizing it properly. It wasn’t love, heaven forbid, nor glory, nor wealth. It was…anyway, I had imagined that at certain moments my life could take on a rare and precious quality. There was no need for extraordinary circumstances: all I asked for was a little order. There is nothing very splendid about my life at present: but now and then, for example when they played music in the cafés, I would l look back and say to myself: in the old days, in London, Meknés, Tokyo, I have known wonderful moments, I have had adventures. It is that which has been taken away from me now. I have just learnt, all of a sudden, for no apparent reason, that I have been lying to myself for ten years. Adventures are in books. And naturally, everything they tell you about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It was to this way of happening that I attached so much importance.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
02c. 1942 ADSuperfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the chestnut trees, or their distance from the Velleda, or their height as compared with that of the plane trees; each of them escaped from the pattern I made for it, overflowed from it or withdrew. And I too among them, vile, languorous, obscene, chewing the cud of my thoughts, I too was superfluous. [I is you or I or anyone.] Luckily I did not feel it, I only understood it, but I felt uncomfortable because I was afraid of feeling it. . . . I thought vaguely of doing away with myself, to do away with at least one of these superfluous existences. But my death – my corpse, my blood poured out on this gravel, among these plants, in this smiling garden – would have been superfluous as well. I was superfluous to all eternity.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
03c. 1942 ADWith 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 / quote ↗
04c. 1942 ADYou talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
05c. 1942 ADI see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
06c. 1942 ADMan lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
07c. 1942 ADHe takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
08c. 1942 ADThe poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
09c. 1942 ADThe bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
10c. 1942 ADMan is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
11c. 1942 ADGood digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
12c. 1942 ADWe only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
13c. 1942 ADOnce freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
15c. 1942 AD3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
16c. 1942 ADThe writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
19c. 1942 ADTotal war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
20c. 1942 ADAll human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
24c. 1942 ADI do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.Jean-Paul Sartre / quote ↗
