Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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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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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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