It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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