A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Words are loaded pistols.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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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’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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