Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Trying

  "La Nausée (Nausea)". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1949.

• Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Cutting, Men

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1962). “Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies”

• As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Squares

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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