Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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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.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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We are our choices.
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