{"author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre","total_quotes":168,"quotes":[{"text":"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["freedom"],"id":998,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["time"],"id":1164,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["adventure","story"],"id":5007,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["defeat","victory","war"],"id":6235,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["image","literature","reflection"],"id":11855,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["generosity","poor"],"id":13912,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Once you hear the details of victory  it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["peace"],"id":16129,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet in other respects is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["condemnation","existence","existentialism","freedom","god","humanism","life","purpose","responsibility","valuesmnation"],"id":16378,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["books","library","literature","reading","words"],"id":16847,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Ah! Yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["trust","me","know "],"id":20770,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":168,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}