Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFor an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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