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?
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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We are our choices.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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