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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Escape Genius Himself Man
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Leaving Life Man Philosophy
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Dream Myself Truth
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Break Change Thinking Yourself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Woman
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Philosophy Science Time
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death End Life Myself Thinking
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Important Philosophy Reaction
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Destroy Man Philosophy
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Books Learning Life Myself
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
Your judgement judges you and defines you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Character Judgement Yourself
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking

I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

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