I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Life is a useless passion.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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