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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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 never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Hell is – other people!
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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