One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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