All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Nothingness haunts Being.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Your judgement judges you and defines you.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre 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.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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