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“The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Age of Reason

Source: The Age of Reason

“Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“There 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 Sartre

Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit

“your judgement judges you and defines you”

Jean Paul Sartre

“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Wall

Source: The Wall

“If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Life is a useless passion.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Part 4, Chapter 2, III
Variant: Man is a useless passion.
Source: Being and Nothingness (1943)

“I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Wall

Source: The Wall

“The aim of language… is to communicate… to impart to others the results one has obtained… As I talk, I reveal the situation… I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Existence is prior to essence.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Being and Nothingness

Part 4, chapter 1
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Variant: Existence precedes and rules essence.

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
Nausea (1938)

“I am myself and I am here.”

Jean Paul Sartre

“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Age of Reason

Source: The Age of Reason

“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Words

Source: The Words

“I do not think therefore I am a moustache”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea