Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIn love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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 SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople 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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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