It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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