As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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