Jean-Paul Sartre

(1905 - 1980)

• "l'enfer, c'est les autres."
  • Translation: "Hell is other people."
  • Source: Play "Huis Clos" ("No Exit")

• "I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow..."
  • Source: Nausea

• "The homosexual never thinks of himself when someone is branded in his presence with the name homosexual. ...His sexual tastes will doubtless lead him to enter into relationships with this suspect category, but he would like to make use of them without being likened to them. Here, too, the ban that is cast on certain men by society has destroyed all possibility of reciprocity among them. Shame isolates."
  • Quote in Who's Who, from Sartre's Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr (New York, 1963)

• "I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating."
  • Quote in Who's Who, from Sartre's Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr (New York, 1963)

Sources

• Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041522974X.