We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action.

(There is no reality except in action.)
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it&...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstanc...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,
and I have followed the source of rivers...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE ¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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