I am myself and I am here.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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 disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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