Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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.
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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.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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