It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELike all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Hell is – other people!
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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