One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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