Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Hell is – other people!
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