The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife 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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Man 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.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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