A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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