As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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We are our choices.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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