I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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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.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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