Author of quotes: Jean-Paul Sartre. Page 4

My God, just think that this is life, that for this they dress, wash, dress, dress, that all the novels talk about it, and think about it all the time ... and finally, here it is: you retire to a bedroom with some type that almost strangles you and cums on your stomach.

<... > would like her to live alone - like me when Louis left - to know what it would be like in the evenings, after working all day, to return alone to her room, and find it empty, and die of the desire to put her head on someone's shoulder. From where, it is asked, and the strength is taken to get up the next morning, and again go to work, and be charming and cheerful, and encourage everyone, while I would like to die rather than continue such a life.

(And yet these types in their ties and boots also had to die. True, later than me, but, in fact, not much. They fished out some names from their papers, they chased people to imprison them or shoot them : They had their own views on the future of Spain and much more. Their businesslike agility jarred me and seemed comical, they looked crazy, and I would not want to be in their place.)

There was no severe pain: although the baby was noisier than us, one was not so depressed - something like a patient, defending himself from an ailment with an attack of fever. When there is not even a fever, it is much more serious.

An existentialist never views a person as a goal, since a person is always incomplete.

We want freedom for the sake of freedom in every single case. But, striving for freedom, we find that it depends entirely on the freedom of other people and that the freedom of others depends on our freedom.

Dishonesty is obviously a lie, for it conceals complete freedom of action. In the same sense, it can be said that a choice is dishonest if it is claimed to be preceded by some pre-existing value. I contradict myself if at the same time I want to establish them and declare that they oblige me.

Man creates himself. He is not created initially, he creates himself by choosing morality, and the pressure of circumstances is such that he cannot but choose a certain morality. We define a person only in connection with his decision to take a position.

Historical situations change: a person can be born a slave in a pagan society, a feudal lord or a proletarian. The only need for him to be in the world, to be in it at work, to be in it among others and to be mortal in it does not change.

the only thing that allows a person to live is action.

For a coward there is always an opportunity to no longer be a coward, and for a hero to stop being a hero. But only complete determination counts, not special cases or individual actions - they do not capture us completely.

A coward is determined by a perfect deed. What people dimly feel and what terrifies them is that the coward himself is guilty of being a coward. People would like cowards or heroes to be born.

I can't count on people I don't know based on a belief in human kindness or a person's interest in the public good. After all, man is free, and there is no human nature on which I can base my calculations.

No universal morality will tell you what to do; there are no signs in the world. Catholics will argue that there are signs. Let's assume that this is the case, but even in this case, I decide for myself what their meaning is.