I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is there to fear in such a regular world?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Hell is – other people!
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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