We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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