The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhen the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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