Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of 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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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