It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Life is a useless passion.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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