Sartre, Jean-Paul

"The past is petrified; the present is flowing; the future is open"

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"We are our choices."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Hell is other people."

"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."

"Existence precedes essence."

"We do not act in order to live; on the contrary, we live in order to act."

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"The more one possesses, the more one is possessed."

"Anguish is the feeling of freedom."

"Writing is a process of learning."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

"Bad faith is to act in the world as if one were not free."

"Man is a useless passion."

"Words are loaded pistols."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"The past is inert. The future alone is important."

"In literature, the fundamental task is to unveil the world in an engaging way."

"We must dare to invent our lives moment by moment."

"The best way to understand any society is through its literature."

"To choose is to affirm the value of what we choose."

"Freedom is the foundation of all values."

"The desire to be is the fundamental human desire."

"Consciousness is a negation; it is the being that is not."

"In order to get any real change, you have to suffer."

"Every consciousness seeks to perpetuate itself."

"The individual is alienated from his work."

"Passion is man's fundamental drive."

"To say that we are free is to say that at every moment we are always capable of being what we are not yet."