She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHe is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is there to fear in such a regular world?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBeing is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREGenius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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