We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Hell is – other people!
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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 think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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