That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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 important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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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 must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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