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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Choice Myself Religion
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Woman
Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence One Liner
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Deep Direction Oneself Philosophy
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Philosophy Start Thinking Yourself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Heart Myself
I am myself and I am here.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself One Liner
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Defeat Victory Yourself
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
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 SARTRE

Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death End Life Myself Thinking
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Deep Freedom
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Nature Philosophy Spiritual
It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Hate Himself Man Self Love Thinking

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

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