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Famous Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
“There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.”
“That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?”
“I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.”
“Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.”
“I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.”
“I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.”
“I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists.”
“In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.”
“The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.”
“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“We do not judge the people we love.”
“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”