Existence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is there to fear in such a regular world?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Hell is – other people!
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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I’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.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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