There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Words are loaded pistols.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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