Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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