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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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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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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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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