I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life is a useless passion.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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 am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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