Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes about Past

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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

Jean-Paul Sartre

Past, Able, Alienation

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

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.

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

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Writing, Past, Men

Jean-Paul Sartre (1978). “Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays”