I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
Jean-Paul SartreFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreWait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: no-exit
If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: literature
Existence is an imperfection.
Jean-Paul SartreI am myself and I am here.
Jean-Paul SartreA right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.
Jean-Paul SartreIt's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror has descended on you, keeping us apart. And yet why should this be? What have you lived through that I have not shared? Do you imagine that my mother's cries will ever cease ringing in my ears? Or that my eyes will ever cease to see her great sad eyes, lakes of lambent darkness in the pallor of it will ever cease ravaging my heart? But what matter? I am free. Beyond anguish, beyond remorse. Free. And at one with myself. No, you must not loathe yourself, Electra. Give me your hand. I shall never forsake you.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: the-flies
This then is the age of reason.
Jean-Paul SartreDo you regret those days?'
'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.
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