You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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