We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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We are our choices.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I am myself and I am here.
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