Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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