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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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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We are our choices.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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