Existence is prior to essence.
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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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