The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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