I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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