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.
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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Nothingness haunts 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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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We are our choices.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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