We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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