I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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