We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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