Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREGenius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf 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 SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIn love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHe is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
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