People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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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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Life is a useless passion.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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