Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is prior to essence.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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