Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Life is a useless passion.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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