Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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