We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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In love, one and one are one.
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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 am myself and I am here.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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