I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I am myself and I am here.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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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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Life is a useless passion.
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