I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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