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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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Myself One Liner
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

Decision Feeling Live Thinking
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
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
Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Value Yourself
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
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Light Myself
I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Failure Language Ourselves Spring
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Oneself Word
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
Life is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life One Liner Passion
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Important Library Myself Religion

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