{"quotes":[{"text":"Well, that's not true. I need to work for a living.”“No, that's not true. You think you need to work like this because that's what you've been told. That is merely an idea put into your head. In actuality, you can walk away any time you want.","author":"Dylan Callens","tags":["existentialism","sartre"],"id":40609,"author_id":"Dylan+Callens"},{"text":"Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["atheism","atheist","atheistic","beliefs","consistency","definition","essence","existence","existentialism","humanism","humans","jean-paul-sartre","man","sartre","views"],"id":52761,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines say what this man is before he dies, or what mankind is before it has disappeared.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["existentialism","sartre"],"id":80310,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["jean-paul","purity","sartre","solitude"],"id":82739,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["alone","nausea","sartre","single"],"id":87521,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["jean-paul","memory","sartre"],"id":115134,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["existentialism","philosophy","sartre"],"id":118598,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its paws with the nail of the other paw; I feel its weight on the table which is not me. It's long, long, this impression of weight, it doesn't pass. There is no reason for it to pass. It becomes intolerable ... I draw back my hand and put it in my pocket; but immediately I feel the warmth of my thigh through the stuff. I pull my hand out of my pocket and let it hang against the back of the chair. Now I feel a weight at the end of my arm. It pulls a little, softly, insinuatingly it exists. I don't insist: no matter where I put it it will go on existing; I can't suppress it, nor can I suppress the rest of my body, the sweaty warmth, which soils my shirt, nor all this warm obesity which turns lazily, as if someone were stirring it with a spoon, nor all the sensations going on inside, going, coming, mounting from my side to my armpit or quietly vegetating from morning to night, in their usual corner.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["existence","jean-paul","limbs","sartre"],"id":141930,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["existentialism","sartre"],"id":154292,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"},{"text":"My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.","author":"Jean-Paul Sartre","tags":["feelings","sartre","yesterday"],"id":155895,"author_id":"Jean-Paul+Sartre"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}