We are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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