Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am myself and I am here.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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