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" "People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist, and critic. He had an enduring personal relationship with fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir.
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And all these existents which bustled about this tree came from nowhere and were going nowhere. Suddenly they existed, then suddenly they existed no longer: existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing — not even a memory. Existence everywhere, infinitely, in excess, for ever and everywhere; existence — which is limited only by existence. I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence, my very flesh throbbed and opened, abandoned itself to the universal burgeoning. It was repugnant. But why, I thought, why so many existences, since they all look alike? What good are so many duplicates of trees? So many existences missed, obstinately begun again and again missed — like the awkward efforts of an insect fallen on its back? (I was one of those efforts.)
Мягкий свет; люди сидят по домам, они, конечно, тоже зажгли лампы. Они читают или смотрят в окно на небо. Для них... для них все иначе. Они состарились по-другому. Они живут среди завещанного добра, среди подарков, и каждый предмет их обстановки - воспоминание. Каминные часы, медали, портреты, ракушки, пресс-папье, ширмы, шали. Их шкафы битком набиты бутылками, отрезами, старой одеждой, газетами - они сохранили все. Прошлое это роскошь собственника.
А где бы я стал хранить свое прошлое? Прошлое в карман не положишь, надо иметь дом, где его разместить. У меня есть только мое тело, одинокий человек со своим одиноким телом не может удержать воспоминания, они проходят сквозь него. Я не имею права жаловаться: я хотел одного - быть свободным.