“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.” WantReasonRealityDiesHellProseWanting To DieDeliriumI Want To Die Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.” WayHas BeensTodayEarthGrowthForgetSituationWorryAnxietyProductionsConsumption Author:Nhat Hanh
“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.” IfsKnowsWantGivingMayMomentsHandsSoundChanceAcceptingMusicBirthMusicianJazzNotesLeavingTinyHolesImpressionIntenseBitterMelody Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.” IfsWayStoriesHappensTruthOppositesThings HappenBeing TrueOne WayTrue Story Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?” MenRealPlayRealityActorsActingRolesRealismDead ManAssassinsListen To MeFamily ManBe Or Not To BeReal Family Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].” NatureSecretMysteryTreeRootsProfoundAbsurdExistentialDelirium Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.” IfsWantMeanPoliticsPartyPowerObjectivesCommunismCommunistRacingKnivesStableCommunist Party Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?” AblePastMy OwnAlienation Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.” RealTimeExistential Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.” KnowsLawYoungDiesCan DoBehindsCrimeYouthPrideHundredCommittedPunishmentRepentanceDeniedUnjustBehind You Author:Jean-Paul Sartre