Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIn football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE