If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I’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.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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