Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThree o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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