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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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Funny Myself Thinking
I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Choice Myself Religion
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Himself Life Man Material
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man Philosophy Transformation
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence God Man
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Forget God Myself
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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Existence Light Myself
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Important Library Myself Religion
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Believe Myself
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Animal Heart Lie
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Feeling Myself
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Empty Myself Tragedy
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Defeat Victory Yourself
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
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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Death End Life Myself Thinking
It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Feeling Lonely Myself Strange
Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Value Yourself
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Leaving Life Man Philosophy
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Exception Live Philosophy

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